Word: linda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Mrs. Roger Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...
...worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...
...gallery while he retired to a back bench for a snooze. Once, he awoke-to speak against admitting peeresses to the House, his objection being that the ladies would try to use the lords' washroom. "It's what they all thought, you know," said daughter Linda, "but he was the only one who dared...
...Romantic Linda is the heroine of Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...
Wigs & Tories. But even Linda's ducal grand passion conforms to the general tone of The Pursuit of Love-which plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly that it makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda...