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Word: marienbad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Venus With Arms | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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