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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The feminine half of the creation legend, Eve, will be played by Kaye Horan, Radcliffe '48, who last year wrote and directed a Christmas miracle play at Radcliffe. Contrary to biblical tale, this Eve turns out to be a fizzle in the play, so Adam creates a more romantic and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Announces Cast For November Show, "Adam the Creator" | 10/23/1946 | See Source »

Rotund, romantic Lieut. Henri-Marie Beyle-who had never ridden a horse or seen a battle-hoisted his huge rump into the saddle and galloped off to war. His armor included two pistols, a large saber and the works of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Racine and Moliere.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crystallized Romantic | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

When his mother died, her place in the gloomy Beyle home at Grenoble was filled by insipid maiden aunts and didactic priests and governesses. Young Henri's life was soon charged with the ideas and feelings that persisted until the day he died-a horror of the established order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crystallized Romantic | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

By the time he returned with Napoleon's army from the invasion of Italy, Henri was, and remained, says Author Josephson, "the eternal strategist in the game of life and sex, always armed with . . . systems, prescriptions, stratagems, and nearly always, comically enough, fated to lose his weapons, and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crystallized Romantic | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Romantic Disguise. He likewise crystallized the facts of life. There were the endless pursuits-sometimes in romantic disguise-of ladies of fashion; once, even, there were three ecstatic days spent hidden in the pitch-black cellar of a chateau, while the loved one (whose husband had come home unexpectedly) periodically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crystallized Romantic | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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