Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also in Reno, after 14 months of marriage, Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke got a quick divorce on grounds of mental cruelty from Porfirio Rubirosa, onetime Dominican Ambassador to Argentina. Puzzled newsmen wondered how she had been able to get the divorce so fast. It was really quite simple, explained Doris: she had never given up legal residence in the state after her first divorce (from Playboy-Diplomat Jimmy Cromwell), because she had never gotten around to selling the house she lived in. Had she made Rubirosa a cash settlement? No, they had agreed on that in advance...
...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
...whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
...each of his roles-soldier, cadet, editor, or unhappy lover-there is no escaping the apparent fact that Poe was a genius, with a mind so quick and extraordinary that, even had he not had a fierce temper and a weakness for drink, his mental superiority to the people around him would probably have made him just as miserable...
...Czechoslovakia. Although the extent of the tie between the Chinese Communists and Moscow is not clear, it is obvious that their form of communism is radically different from the Russian variety. The Chinese brand is based not on an urban but on an agrarian economy. Industrial backwardness prevents the quick establishment of a police state. Moreover, since the Communists must use the same bureaucracy to carry out its administration, they must modify their demands to make them acceptable to this group...