Word: paramour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
Death stared from the cadavers of mighty buildings; the smashed, charred bones of the Reichstag (see cut); the battle-broken Chancellery, where Adolf Hitler and his paramour, Eva Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice. The stench of death rose too from corpses still rotting under debris, from the corpse-clogged Liitzow Canal, from hasty, shallow graves dug in every park and Platz...
Infatuated Benito Mussolini often followed Claretta's counsel on foreign policy. During the Spanish Civil War General Francisco Franco petitioned Rome for two more divisions. "What shall I do?" the Duce asked his paramour. "Bimbo," she replied, "do send the divisions. General Franco is so simpatico." When the time came to attack Greece, Claretta approved because the Greek Ambassador had snubbed her at diplomatic receptions...
...with Brother Henry, Sister Frances, in the famed Hall-Mills murder trial of 1926; eleven days after Sister Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified, but proved to be the most lucid...
...kicking ex-glamour girls on their way down. Miss Dunne's abortive attempt to play a native young thing from the sticks seeking adventure and romance in the Big City is Hollywood's blunder, not her own. Inescapably forty-ish, she is woefully miscast as the giddy paramour of the Brothers Duncan, acted by Robert Montgomery and Preston Foster...