Word: harems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startled BBC listeners by describing Anna as a bigot, "one of those awful little English governesses, a sex-starved widow." Grimble says he bases his ungallant appraisal on a study of Anna's own books, The English Governess at the Siamese Court and The Romance of the Harem. They were, says Grimble, "pornographic," and "rubbish" -"the sort of books that Calvinists read beneath bedcovers...
...father was a Hungarian contractor, her mother an Egyptian girl "born in a harem," according to Tullah. She came to the U.S. about 30 years ago, having dropped out of school at 14. "Already I had decided to marry a millionaire," she explains, "but I rejected two Chicago millionaires before I met my Edward. They were bum millionaires. I didn't want to throw such a pearl before swine...