Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...
After his mother's death, Gide finally married Cousin Emmanuèele. She is the prototype of characters in several of his books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died...
Rachmilovich has used the same principle in building the reputation of his play-for-fun Santa Monica Symphony. When he finally got some of his money out of Europe (a friend sent it to him in Swiss watches, which sold easily in the war-short U.S.), he put it into making records ("something people would want-and would have to take ours or go without...
Berg was fiercely proud of a Ford bought with the proceeds of Wozzeck. Once when a reporter wrote that he was "neglected and starving," Berg called up a friend: "It is necessary that tonight we starve better than usual; come and starve with us." They ate at one of Vienna's best restaurants. With his second opera, Lulu, unfinished, he died of blood poisoning...
...rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face...