Word: constancia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody can fault her story for lack of plot. After Spain, Decca married her lover, Esmond Romilly. They came to the U.S. She conceived his child, Constancia, nicknamed Dinky, before he returned to Europe with the Canadian Royal Air Force and died in action in 1941. Despite that tragedy, Decca tells, with a nice sense of wartime humor, of her duty on the Washington front in the Office of Price Administration. At last it is the moment for the slap in the face of the British Empire-the really big Mitford-sister gesture. After moving to California, marrying a brilliant...