Word: haaren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first wife, has been married by the British Consul to an idealistic ingenue of an Irish girl named Helen, who has nursed him through a four years' illness. The bibulous Consul Cheyne, his wife Gabrialle, an unscrupulous French ex-harlot, Helen's Dutch friend, warm sensuous Jenny van Haaren who struggles--at intervals--against her infatuation for Gerald, and Hilary Bentinck, the worldly-wise though disillusioned lawyer who has handled the divorce, comprise the members of the party...
...radio has awe-inspiring educational possibilities. An instructor in the Haaren High School delivered his lecture from the Waldorf-Astoria, and ended with a test question to which he unfortunately broadcast the wrong answer. To make it worse, the Superintendent of Schools was listening in at 500 Park Avenue...