Word: fancier
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...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief. In her latest novel, an aging 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...master and a whip-shy dog. In the 17 years since he first gained control of TWA through his wholly owned (and vastly profitable) Hughes Tool Co., Hughes has run through five TWA presidents-some of whom he never bothered to meet-and has put the line through ever fancier financial paces. Last week, as sometimes happens, the baffled dog finally turned...
Ninian La Touche is a rich, middle-aged bachelor and art fancier who lives at Silverwood, a vast sprawling estate outside London. Ninian has vague intimations of what goes on in the wicked...
...first and slightest of the confessions offers a fairly standard cuckold-an anguished antique fancier who, moments after he hears the lewd news, is babbling distractedly of who should get the sideboard. The wife, as generally happens in a Bergman gavotte, frees herself of both lover and husband, but with maternal indulgence accepts the husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking...