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...entirely. In mock despair she frankly told friends that her children were dolts, once complimented Anne with: "That's right, lovey-dove, you seem a shade less stupid than your sisters." Stupid or not, they all wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine...
...same as that at last year's Opera Theater premiere. The one change which brought Margaret Brink in as the Countess, was, if musical memories are accurate, an improvement. Miss Brink's crystal tones and appealing voice were perfect for the part, and she sang her showpiece aria, "Dove Sono," well with the possible exception of a slightly breathy conclusion...
Among the divers, Tom Drohan carried the Ulen name as far as the Caribbees. The board artist who used to exchange first and second place with Bob Asron in every meet last year dove several exhibitions in Bermuda with a New York Athletic Club team...
Criminal proceedings were brought only against the associations, which cannot serve a prison term; officers of the associations, who conceivably could, were named in a civil suit only. Despite such dove-roaring, however, Washington expected the flow of indictments to continue. For Tom Clark's crusade was so patently political that almost every businessman could expect some accusation of one sort or another before next year's election...
...watched goggle-eyed on the beaches as buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling "Any gum, chum?" Then came London...