Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reality. Soon Frossia had a lover. She found Michael on a park bench, weeping, starving, bareheaded, bitter, 22 years old, three years younger than herself. She fed him. "He had fed stooping over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin...
...Iron Lover. Between the Sir John known to the British public, and the one known to his attractive, blonde, considerably younger wife, there is a vast difference. To her he is notably attentive. She is always present when he addresses the House of Commons. On their small Sussex estate he putters in the garden, takes soil samples from various spots to be analyzed, constantly plans the big landscaping job he will do when peace eases the tight labor market...
...never really recovered. Of her remarkable eyes Hazlitt wrote later: "I might have spied in their glittering motionless surface, the rocks and quicksands that awaited me below." After months of fruitless wooing, Hazlitt learned that the landlord's daughter loved another man. He asked her to describe her lover. She pointed to a statuette on Hazlitt's mantelpiece. "[He is like] that little image," she said. It was a statuette of Napoleon. Hazlitt hurled the bust to the floor, rushed from the house crying: "She has destroyed me forever...
...went into business and became head of he Remington-Sholes typewriter manufacturing company, one of the pioneer companies in America to turn out these machines. He was also president of the Chicago utilities companies. Besides writing several volumes on business and finance, Fay was a music lover and an ardent patron of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when it was directed by Theodore Thomas. The last few years of his life were spent in Cambridge as a resident of Harvard Faculty Club...
...Miss Hayworth the image of her grandmother, whom he loved in his youth (Miss Hayworth is glimpsed briefly, more fully clad, in Tony Pastor flashbacks). He puts her on the cover of his magazine, Vanity. After that it is only a question of time before she bolts her lover for a Broadway producer (Lee Bowman) and his big new show. In due time she bolts a socialite wedding march for her Brooklyn boss...