Word: lucretia
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Throughout the book, changes in the city environment where the characters live seem to mirror their aging process. In "Old Love Affairs," Lucretia Baine, who is "almost old but lively," remembers her youth in San Francisco, when "the whole city seemed full of the relatively young and unmarried" and the youthful energy of the city had not yet been corrupted. Now, although she still excitedly wonders what to wear when an old acquaintance asks her to dinner, that freshness is gone, and she feels the city has grown older with...
...Throughout the book, changes in the city environment where the characters live seem to mirror their aging process. In "Old Love Affairs," Lucretia Baine, who is "almost old but lively," remembers her youth in San Francisco, when "the whole city seemed full of the relatively young and unmarried" and the youthful energy of the city had not yet been corrupted. Now, although she still excitedly wonders what to wear when an old acquaintance asks her to dinner, that freshness is gone, and she feels the city has grown older with...
Visiting Professor John D. Rickard is used to having his voice noticed; after all, he spent 10 years on stage, singing his heart out in musicals such as "The King and I" or operas including "The Rape of Lucretia...
Through his mother, Lucretia Perkins, Burns can claim one of the town's earliest settlers--a John Perkins who landed in Ipswich in 1628 and settled in Salem--as his direct antecedent...
...gumshoes also unearthed a domestic-violence complaint in his past, but Wigand takes issue with the dossier's claim that he "beat his wife." He does admit that he and his wife Lucretia had a serious fight in 1993, that 911 was called and that he volunteered to attend anger-control classes for about a week. "I don't think anybody is as pure as the driven snow," he says. "They've distorted the truth. It's not different from what they've done traditionally." Though he and his wife reconciled, in late January Wigand returned home from the airport...