Word: missing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been here 15 years," he explained, "and I've begun to find myself quoting myself." If White is quoting himself, other people have been quoting him too. Women's higher education may in general still be the same mess of spinach he found it, but it will miss Gourmet White's special brand of vinegar...
...Miss HOWARD AND THE EMPEROR (224 pp.)-Simone Andre Maurois-Knopf...
...where he had been dumped by King Louis Philippe for' trying to nab the throne. Exiled Louis was in search of a treasure chest from which to subsidize a fresh coup. One of Lady Blessington's guests, a beautiful "tenth rate" Shakespearean actress known as Miss Howard, had just the chest Louis was after...
...destined pair exchanged confidences. Blushing Miss Howard confessed that her life was not free from stain: an evil man had taken advantage of her sweet nature-with the result that, though only 23, she had one illegitimate son in the fashionable London district of St. John's Wood and at least ?1,000,000 in the kitty. His eyes sparkling, Prince Louis forgave Miss Howard. He himself, he confessed, was not without sin. While incarcerated at Ham, he had fathered two sons of the jailer's daughter-"the fruits of captivity," he murmured. Then he threw himself...
Simone Andre Maurois, wife of the famed French biographer, tells the full, fabulous story of Miss Howard and Louis Napoleon for the first time. It has not been told accurately before because Actress Howard, with understandable shyness, told lots of little fibs and falsified lots of little registers...