Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighting O'Flynn (Fairbanks; Universal-International) allows Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to make good use of a reliable family formula: never enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...
...Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour...
...instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about "society" without bitterness...
...member. Gide turned it down. Later, after Proust had published it at his own expense, Gide wrote him that "the rejection of this book will remain . . . one of the most poignantly remorseful regrets of my life . . ." With infinite grace Proust replied: "Had there been no rejection ... I should never have had your letter...
...Proust never dated his letters...