Word: millpond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster, and so long as it stands, all Europe plays upon its bounty, feeding the Merz gold into art. bric-a-brac, gambling debts, mistresses and "culture...
Oscar-winning Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, 37, who once observed that a good husband should be "as placid as a millpond in July," posed for photographers in Hollywood with her new fiance, Paris Magazine Writer Pierre Galante, 42, whom she plans to marry soon after her divorce from Novelist Marcus (Delilah) Goodrich becomes final next week...
...shenanigans of the power-hungry Perons bode ill for the whole world. Curtailment of common liberties in Argentina is like the proverbial rock tossed into the millpond. First a great splash, then the seemingly never-ending ripples which go on & on, just as the evil created by Peron will go on & on and find its mark in the gullibility of "follow-the-leader" people all over the universe...