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...confidence, indeed in pride," he opened a campaign against rumormongering. It had been verified that "They say . . ." stories had caused the evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick up a newspaper and revealed to horrified passengers a man's hairy forearm. With "wide powers" to stop rumormongering, police went to work. A news vendor in Portsmouth was sentenced to three months for shouting "Germans bomb London...
...Shea, a pretty French girl named Antoinette Bolviller. To the latter, a niece of the Russian Minister, Irving wrote the best letters of his life. All that is known of her history is that 30 years later she was unmarried, living in Rome, spending her days in nun's dress copying paintings in the galleries...
...first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted over with a nun's habit. Years later it was restored...
...Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins of a nun." The Goritzins, who spoke emigre English, had a hard time finding another job, finally drifted into domestic service...
...Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...