Word: glyn
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...school mistress of proper young ladies, Herminia positively refused to be made an honest woman, though her sensible lover, Alan Merrick, pleaded, and her would-be father-in-law cabled to them in Perugia with a flourish. Nevertheless, Victorian sympathy surged heavily to Herminia and the school of Elinor Glyn was founded when illegitimate little Dolores turned out a begrudging, bourgeois little Dolly, insensitive to the noble thing her mother had thought she was doing. There was not a dry eye in the kingdom when, not to "atone" but heroic lly to clear the track for Dolly, a vial...
...success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
...these, much touted songs, the hit of the show, taking it for granted that the producers will force Fair Lady down the threat of Broadway, will probably be "It," a very clever adaptation of Elinor Glyn's article on sex appeal. Has she got it? Then she doesn't need good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...
...Clayton Glyn, widow; author of Three Weeks, His Hour, The Reason Why, Three Things, Man and Maid, The Great Moment...