Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflection, but it would go something like this: "You know, gentlemen, Baroness was a very remarkable woman. She had a long and distinguished string of admirers, among whom was Meternich. They didn't see each other very often, but carried on a long and interesting correspondence. Meternich's love letters, gentlemen, were more or less theoretical. Later the Baroness was very close to George Canning, very close." Warner Shippee Correspondent to the MINNESOTA DAILY
...everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows my age)-for 51 years, to be exact†-I have been enjoying tremendously the adventure of being alive. I have had success and failure; and, perhaps, more than my share of fame in an art that I love passionately...
...tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld. She escapes, hunts up Uncle Domitien. Gomar pursues and reclaims her-but not before she and Domitien have fallen in love- kills Domitien, and in the man hunt that follows is killed himself. The end is long-drawn-out, slightly platitudinous, with Domitien's wife and Karelina united in grief for their common lover...
...text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader can settle down to a solidly written, if a little protracted, account of pioneer hardship and leather-breeched love, its scene one of the great mass migrations of modern history...
...asked who was his favorite actor. "Ed Wynn," came the prompt reply. And next to him? "My son, Keenan." Who was his favorite after his son? "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne." Another favorite is Philadelphia. In his show, Ed invents a "brotherly love" gas. He wants to use it on everyone because . . . "then you'll all be like the people in Philadelphia...