Word: elina
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...trip was really planted by the son, who wants for his part to see if there's life in the old stalk yet. Soon they meet a pretty midinette (Odile Versois)-just right for junior, father thinks. Then they meet a beautiful woman of the world (Elina Labourdette) -just right for father, junior thinks. Yet all at once the son is locked in mortal osculation with the older woman, and father is casting sheep's eyes at the girl, as she allows that "It's much more interesting for a woman if a man is older...
...samba with a chair held in his arms, the robbers who once burglarized an apartment ("they carried down the garbage when they left, it was right on their way, after all"). No one knows of the woman named Morderet; we discover she is a chambermaid, known only as Elina, for "in what records are inscribed the family names of old servants? For Eternity, servants have only a first name, like saints." The story is told softly, but its point--"how to make ourselves known"--comes across without blurring...
...Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka Cain, second wife of 50-year-old James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), told a Los Angeles divorce judge that the side-mouth novelist once took her by the arm and threw her "clear across the room. "Writers are funny people," mused Mrs. Cain. She won her divorce...