Search Details

Word: horfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...talk of London, until she was accused of poisoning blind Colonel Paradine, V. C. But like Garbo she was glamorous, passionate, enigmatic-a femme fatale. She complicated life unbearably enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William Marsh. Everything might have gone along smoothly, since Colonel Paradine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cause Célèbre | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

| 1 |