Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The story is an old one, which wears well because it appeals to man's desire to be free of convention. A London lady, Joan Fontaine, bored by her secluded life, falls in love with a dashing but thoroughly honorable Robin Hood of the sea, Arturo de Cordova. The story...
Budapest itself was holding out but it was in trouble. Apparently the Germans were determined to fight to the last Hungarian, determined to make the romantic, sophisticated old capital another Aachen or Cherbourg. Refugees, food shortages and lack of bomb shelters had brought the city near to chaos. Pest, the...
¶ American romantics like Walt Whit man have cried that democratic Americans "rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But the U.S., says Brogan, "was made by politicians" - types who readily indulged in romantic rhetoric but were basically "matter-of-fact men . . . with a clear head...
Her mother was Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic in a moment of inspiration in 1861 and died in 1910, at 91, without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's...