Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of...
Died. Eugene Higgins, 83, American painter and etcher, artistic descendant of France's 19th century Romantic Jean Francois Millet; after long illness; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Gene Higgins put in seven bohemian years in Paris, returned to the U.S. in 1904, spent the rest of his life painting slum...
There was once a sweetly pensive French popsy named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma...
"On a romantic and starry night like this, it's hard to keep your mind on your business," said Steve Allen, sticking to the script as he peered into the Havana sky last week. The sky was overcast and black, and a chilly wind sent wavelets across the swimming...
Then it was air time, and the chaos fell into order. The stiff breeze slammed Mamie's dressing screen to the ground just off-camera (it was righted on time), tore her flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who...