Word: elisabet
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...Molitor's loyalty is somewhat more mystifying. In 1986 Alex was dating schoolmate Molitor; it was her family's Jeep he was driving the night of the alleged rape. Although he returned from his exile with a Swedish woman, Elisabet Jansson, whom he described as his fiance, Jansson is gone and Kelly and Molitor are again romantically involved. Courtroom observers can be heard whispering, "What does she see in him?" They might well wonder: just before the trial the couple was in a car wreck, in Amy's car. Kelly, out on bond and late for his curfew, overturned...
Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...
...Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
...Elisabet was sustained by an appealing cast of minor eccentrics. She would never admit that she had married Edmund Montgomery, bastard of a Scottish baron, lifelong searcher for the mainspring of life in the pullulations of protoplasm. All his life he called her "Miss Ney." In his silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...
...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...