Word: montillion
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs. At one point Elsa Maxwell got her licks in by announcing that Mr. Fitch had left Porter's party for hers. During these years Porter wrote many...
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