Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashionable Boulogne, Burton devoted himself to writing, swordsmanship and pretty women. Of farthest-reaching consequences was his bold self-introduction to tall, beautiful, 19-year-old Isabel Arundell, closely guarded daughter of an aristocratic English Catholic family. To his "painful" smile on the street one day she responded by whispering tremulously to her sister, "That man will marry me." Afterwards she maneuvered a formal introduction, was quickly forgotten by Burton in his characteristically thorough plans for a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...after. To escape them, Burton went to Salt Lake City to have a look at the Mormons. Brigham Young's harem reminded him of a "large English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral strictness he sailed for home. Between trips he had asked Isabel to marry him, had been put off only because of violent opposition from her mother. This time she said yes. Then began Isabel's large-scale wire-pulling which resulted in Burton's moving up through consular appointments until he came to Damascus, whence he was recalled...
Under the double lash of the British Army and Victorian conventions Burton had subsided only somewhat. Under Isabel's expert management ("I have domesticated and tamed Richard a little," she wrote) he broke out less often but no less lustily. In his last years at Trieste, an old man by now. Burton one day routed Isabel's swanky afternoon circle of women by stalking into their midst, glowering, to display a manuscript titled A History of Farting...
Virtue, sentimentality and black whiskers will come to Winthrop in approved House drama style on April 22 and 23, when members of the House will stage "East Lynne." The piteous Lady Isabel, who compromises herself and comes to a tragic end, is played by Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, while the lecherous villain, Sir Francis Levison, is A. James Lehman...
...Columbus, Ohio, spindle-legged, undernourished Isabel Carter, 13, was revealed to be the bride of three weeks of Harry Monroe, 37, a paralytic. Her parents were considering annulment action...