Word: miramar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband in 1909, her Newport mansion, "Miramar," her huge annual tennis-week balls...
Mallorca is called Miramar, Lawrence is Marius, Coward is Andrew Jordan. Marius has two sons, one of whom despises his father and can think of nothing but his future career as a great trapeze artist; the other, Saul, has left home several years ago but is coming back to do his last filial duties. On the boat from Marseilles Saul meets Andrew Jordan, a "brilliantly second-rate," phenomenally successful playwright. In their very first conversation Andrew's shiny sophistication crumples before the hypnotic sincerity of Saul; by the time they reach Miramar Andrew is in a dither...
...hand when a bomb exploded and turned the baby into pieces? Do you know that often bombs explode inside theatres hurting the public? That is the way of opposition. They do this "politic" (?) to put terror in the souls, not letting live anybody. Do you know that in Miramar Reparto a bomb exploded killing the chief of police, a lieutenant of the army and two citizens that were standing nearby? That bomb was put also by the opposition to "put terror in the souls"! And I do not wish to make this letter longer, but I, who love justice...
...failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly...