Word: edwina
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Well might sensitive Percy act apologetic, ashamed and guilty. He and Edwina seemed perfectly mated, but Percy refused to mate. He was in love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...
...novel, but the theme of her crisp witty satire is Man-his birth in pain his absurdity in marriage, his glory in freedom. Her ape is no ordinary one; its kind is the closest thing to Homo sapiens that the animal kingdom has produced. For that reason, Percy and Edwina are the center of impassioned scientific interest...
...plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his equally controversial wife Edwina...
Lord Louis is now stationed far away from London as commander in chief of the NATO Mediterranean fleet based on Malta, and the Queen Mother's reported distaste for Edwina has produced a notable coolness between the Mountbattens and Buckingham Palace. Philip, though still fond of Uncle Louis and Aunt Edwina, is reportedly well aware that his kinship may now become more hindrance than help. But he remains a Battenberg, and so does his son, the next King of England. In 100 years, the blood of the Battenbergs has risen from obscurity on the banks of the Rhine...
...another Mary. Before long, her mind began to go to pieces. Booth became used to running to & fro between stage and dressing room, Hamlet or Lear at one moment, nurse to a hysterical woman the next. Then the second Mary died, and Booth was alone except for his daughter Edwina...