Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred Lunt turned cooking instructor, took on a class of 50 beginners for a three-week course in everything from soft-boiled eggs to risotto. The $10 tuitions go to the American Theater Wing's war work. Among his pupils: wife Lynn Fontanne, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Peggy Wood, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. Brock Pemberton...
...ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
...Elsa Schiaparelli peered into the future, said of skirt-lengths: "It always depends on the legs...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo...
Louisa (Edith Barrett) likes to put frogs on the dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...