Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He is more often passionate than romantic :
Whim of Iron. Porter's life story has another deficiency as a movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe...
The subject in question was one of the 19th Century's standard true-life romantic mysteries-the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, in 1889. But Author Lonyay (whose princely uncle later married Rudolph's...
When Irish-born and English-schooled Louis MacNeice first started writing verse in the late 1920s, he joined up with the bad boys, led by W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, who had set out to purge the English soul of bourgeois stodginess and English poetry of romantic fripperies. The...
On New Year's Day there were other difficulties-dozens of war brides and fiancees had been delayed enroute to the U.S., and had not managed to arrive before the deadline. But at week's end, Attorney General Tom Clark solved the problem nicely with a wide, romantic...