Word: rachele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lady Rachel Howard, 34, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, who is Britain's No. 1 Roman Catholic peer; and Colin Keppel Davidson, 43, Clerk of the House of Lords; in Arundel, England...
...MURDER-D. B. Olsen-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Mayhew needs help from 70-year-old Rachel Murdock in solving the killings of her niece and another guest. A good creepy story...
...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...
Hours later, Antoine sat down on the floor, rested his back against the wall. The little girl was still alive. The younger doctor was treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...
...careers. The present volume (which includes a new translation of the first two) carries them on, shows Jacques, emotional, unstable, imaginative, developing from a runaway schoolboy to writer, to revolutionist, while Antoine, sober, good-natured, plodding, grows in understanding as his professional skill increases. He falls in love with Rachel and finally, through the haze of the lies she tells him about herself, begins to understand her sulphurous, vicious, pathetic, vice-ridden past and future. Still to be translated is Summer 1914 (a book as long as Gone With the Wind), which carries the fate of Jacques and Antoine...