Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Keats's death Severn slowly lapsed into the somewhat gamy society of Rome's British bohemians. (Even the English expatriates in Rome thought Lady Blessington was going too far when she married her dandiacal French lover to her 15-year-old stepdaughter to keep him at home...
...left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar." Solange liked to fall on her knees in a crowded room and, "feebly muttering," wind her arms around the Count's legs...
Duncan Norton-Taylor is a home-lover's Quentin Reynolds. Correspondent Reynolds is 6 ft. i in. tall, weighs 220 lb., dines with generals, calls everybody by his first name, and gives the bide-at-home a keen sense of participation in great and dangerous affairs. Correspondent Norton-Taylor is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 130 lb., is surprised if a major is nice to him, is frightened by clouds, prefers fingers to cotton in his ears when any firing is going on, and in general gives an endearing sense of what most fighters want most...
...come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed-out but repentant husband came to beg her to come home. Catherine decided that her new-found lover had better share a hopeless grave with the dead stallion...
Most striking Losch oil: Saga in Five Movements, which was five paintings in one and an allegory of the life of woman to boot. In it Woman 1) emerges hopefully from adolescence, 2) meets a lover under a tree in Eden, 3) wanders in solitude, 4) swings on a symbolic bar between heaven and earth, 5) returns to a home and children...