Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a woman probably said the same thing to dashing Denis Diderot, but for another reason. "Look for women who won't make you sigh too long," young Denis advised. "They amuse as much as the others; they take less time; you possess them without worries and leave them without regrets." Up in Paris from the provinces, where he almost took vows of chastity and became a priest, Diderot followed his own advice and lived the left-bank vie de Bohéme, made up of much talk, not enough food and more than enough love...
...hardly elegant or beautiful. She got her job at 18, addressing envelopes for $10 a week-"a factotum, a kind of little widget, young, eager and ignorant. I think I was not an unattractive young woman . . . but the only permissible bust measurement, the perfect 36, I did not possess...
...world, there was only one language -French," says she. "Today our fashion markets spread from Seventh Avenue to California, and there are manufacturers in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas." Summing up 49 years in the editor's chair, she says: "Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. I have seen a Texas cowboy swing himself into his saddle with more real elegance, more style, than many gentlemen on the hunting field...
...intellectual, continually spurring it on to new efforts. Like any such insect, he occasionally gets under the skin of the host upon whom he depends for existence. It is not surprising that Mr. Kaplowitz, plagued to distraction by Riesman, petulantly scolds him for lacking virtues he never attempted to possess. "Riesman's plethoric insights never come together to form a conscious, let alone conscientious stand." What flea ever took a conscientious stand...
BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...