Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In romantic Venice, the year's largest crop of illegitimate Italians is always born in March, thanks to the annual festive "Hymen Harvest" duly celebrated last week. For this occasion Il Duce's ban against kissing in public, which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80...
In the New Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of age put to death. "As though the list of his numerous crimes were not yet long enough," comments Author Minkin...
An old fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in...
Travelers back from the East have for generations enlivened dinner parties with accounts of Hindu fakirs who floated unsupported in mid-air before the eyes of hundreds, or climbed a miraculous rope until they were lost to sight. Skeptical listeners, psychic researchers, men of science have scoffed at these marvels...
Author Carmer's approach to Northern New York is suggested by the romantic legend that gives his book its title. Sometimes dwellers there hear a sound of distant drumbeats. Are they made by the ghost of an English officer executed during the Revolution? Are they echoes of the death...