Word: duenna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pauses, such as clogged the pell-mell action of Anthony Adverse, slow down Captain from Castile. It has all the trappings of romantic fiction: moonlight trysts, carousals, desperate galloping, clashing swords, a gallows scene, the education of an innocent girl in the arts of love by her worldly-wise duenna...
Morgan, his friend, the "elderly and well preserved Mrs. Douglas," her duenna and a cadging Italian courier. Mr. Morgan, said Mr. Fry, was rude everywhere. When, off Ancona, a choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies...