Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid in such living-quarters as a villa in Fiesole, morning room in Mr. Farquhar's house, Park Avenue; the Duchess de Bercy's house, Avenue de Bois de Boulogne. All this is so fearful that one is apt to forget that an exceedingly fine company of actors is displaying a theatrically adroit and often moving play...
...Ugly Duchess THE UGLY DUCHESS?Lion Feuchtwanger (translated by Willa & Edwin Muir)?Viking...
This was when the ugly duchess was journeying to her marriage. Her husband, the Count of Tyrol, was a sulky child; beneath his mean but not repulsive features he concealed a small mind, as ratlike as his face, and as commonplace. The clever duchess favored her husband's page, Chretien de Laferte; but, in a few years, after she had given him castles and wide lands, the page humbled her by marrying Agnes von Flavon whose stupidity Margarete disdained, whose beauty made her furious. The bitter, hideous little woman had Chretien killed; and when the Count of Tyrol invited Agnes...
...Maultasch" (Sack-mouth)?found a man as ugly as herself to whom she could entrust her affairs. Konrad of Frauenberg was an albino who found his enjoyment of life in eating, drinking, taking a bath, sleeping and three other kindred but less polite pleasures. He sneered at the duchess, managed her lands, killed her husband, then her son, finally her detested enemy, the lovely and well-loved Agnes von Flavon...
...ugly Duchess, the Maultasch, grew old and more hideous and very tired of life. The wisdom and gentility that, had her face been presentable, would have made her a paragon, curdled in her mind to a meagre and ineffective savagery. First she hired many cooks. Then, finding no diversion in the products of their art, she signed away all the lands she had loved, forgot her income, relinquished her estates, retreated, sick and deserted, to sun her blistered skin in a squalid cottage on a fisherman's island...