Word: gra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Zen. Like Alice, Ellen confesses that she was movie-afflicted early on. "It's just in the past six or seven years," she says, "that I've started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit...
...mere speculations when, with exquisite tact, the author mildly reproaches Hornblower for infidelities to his wife, Lady Barbara (sister of the Duke of Wellington), or speculates that she, too, may have enjoyed a brief liaison with Baron von Neffzer in Vienna in 1815-when Hornblower and the Vicomtesse de Graçay were temporarily holding Bonaparte's regulars at bay along the Loire. A similar tact touches Professor Parkinson's handling of the then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown, 74 guns) on the West Indies station in 1800.* A pedant...