Word: lover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other for their respective faults and then fall weeping into each other's arms. A sea gull killed by the young man, is made to stand for the girl he loves, a young, unwise person seduced and made miserable by a bland, second-rate author, the mother's lover...
...with tanks, cages, diving helmets, dredging apparatus, Hancock found "Eden," the idyllic home on Galapagan Charles Island of toothless Escapist Dr. Frederick Ritter and his toothless common-law wife Frau Dore Koerwin. Three years later he discovered on Marchena the twisted, mummified body of Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, castoff tuberculous lover of a Galapagan lady, the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol...
...ecstatics, corresponding to the Crucifixion wounds, are the result of hysteria, writes Dr. Bernstein, and "represent an identification with Christ on the part of the patient." Another of Dr. Bernstein's cases was a remorseful young wife who itched on those parts of her body which her former lover once decorated with flowers...
...Freudian source books. Again, as with the first volume of his tetralogy, publishers in the East refused to touch the book, leaving Idaho's Caxton Printers to take a moral risk somewhat akin to that taken by the publishers of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal of a lover. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write a poem for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation, a nervous attack, Harriet...