Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit to the Brown home in Wales. There he gradually, but inevitably, falls in love with Muriel. Anne's younger sister. Romantic adolescent, unsure, Claude proposes marriage. Muriel wavers. Mothers are summoned...
After much discussion, the two agree to separate for a year. Claude returns to Paris, becomes an art dealer and falls out of love. Muriel suffers; time passes. Meanwhile, Anne grows beautiful, becomes an artist in Paris, falls in and out of passionate love with Claude, turns consumptive, dies. Claude writes a novel. Muriel, a thirty-year-old virgin schoolteacher, returns for one last evening with her first and only love who obligingly and summarily deflowers her. One could go on, one needn...
House representatives will meet weekly with Dr. Warren Wecker, director of UHS; Dr. Sholen Pastel, moderate director; Dr. William Kandon '96 bend of the emergency word; Dr. Kenneth Dinklage, head of psychiatry; Dr. Paul Walters, head of psychology, and Muriel Cunningham, head of nursing...
...like to call it operetta," said Actress/Singer Edie Adams. "If I say opera I get scared." Scared or not, the blonde comedienne, who did takeoffs of Marilyn Monroe on her late husband Ernie Kovacs' TV show in the '50s and later made "Smoke Me" commercials for Muriel Cigars, was finally making her debut at the Seattle Opera. "I feel opera is my real voice," confessed Soprano Edie after her performance in the title role of Offenbach's La Perichole. "Just think of 72 people on the stage, all singing. Sometimes I feel I must have been born...
After the marathon credentials session, the convention took on an air of inexorability. At noon on Tuesday, "because I can count," Humphrey withdrew his name from the race. Fighting back tears, comforting his wife Muriel, Humphrey told reporters: "This has been a good fight." At 61, it was Humphrey's final farewell. As the 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, he had galvanized the 1948 convention with his pleas for civil rights; he had been thought too radical all through the '50s, lost out to John Kennedy in 1960 and to Richard Nixon in 1968, and lived to find himself...