Word: nymph
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Much of the book is dull. Most of it is silly. And the publishers, having blurbed it "a Quaker Constant Nymph," hope that most readers will swarm to it like crabs to gamy bait...
There were the usual Occidental eccentrics - British Miss Roder, who spent most of her time washing off Chinese contamination in boracic acid; American Mrs. Sedley, who believed she was "the nymph of the spring" and danced around a water hole in nightgown and flowers, crying: "Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus, Dionysus...
...rush temporary restorations to house some of the Big Three staffs. The white stone palace where President Roosevelt stayed was built in 1911 for the last of the Romanovs. But the smaller of the estate's two palaces, the gardens themselves and the famed Fountain of the Nymph-smuggled from Pompeii in 1834 -are pretty much as they were when Mark Twain saw them, clustered in the shadow of the great Ai-Dagh (Holy Mount...
...unquestionably the work of an expert: the tricky job of slitting the canvas was notably clean; two more valuable paintings (Cezanne's Bread and Eggs and Edouard Manet's Nymph Surprised) hung beside the stolen Monet-but to an initiate, these would be recognized as unsaleable. Not so Berge (Embankment). This exquisite, frosty scene of the Seine River bank near the Norman village of Vetheuil, where Monet often painted, has been in Buenos Aires since 1912, is comparatively little known elsewhere. Because no complete, official catalogue of Monet's work exists, the painting might well be disposed...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...