Word: idylle
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Yet despite Sassoon's mature glow, his idyll sets down a striking number of young Sassoon's unhappinesses. His parents' separation infected even the nursery with melancholy. His rich Aunt Rachel (the only Sassoon he remembers well), who lived in a gloomy mansion and was married to...
In Cleveland's painting, Watteau's favorite blonde model and a boy are mincing a lazy minuet while a company of softly shining young ladies and gents look on. This unselfconscious little idyll pleased Frederick the Great, Francophile King of Prussia, and he had his ambassador buy it...
Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony.
Changing her own story last week, Mme de Fontanges claimed that it was the burning jealousy of white-thatched Joseph Paul-Boncour, former Premier of France, that really ended her glorious idyll with Il Duce.
"The idyll lasted only a short time. In accordance with her usual customs, she talked too much. Rumors reached the ear of Il Duce, which made him doubt both the discretion, and fidelity of the pretty foreigner. A Minister warned Mussolini that he was risking the annoyance of a petty...