Word: suitoring
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...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
...press trailed her everywhere, reported her forays into the Monte Carlo casinos, her nude swims in the Mediterranean, her dietetic secrets (one meal a day, fortified with a pre-bed glass of milk mixed with ten drops of iodine). Roads, perfumes, sundaes were named after her, and if a suitor was lacking, she was not above dredging up a photograph of some deceased Hindu prince and releasing it to the press as her latest marital prospect...
Stop & Start. But it was all show: marriage was not for Mary Garden. On one occasion, when a wealthy suitor proposed to her, she stationed him in the wings so that he could hear the cheers and applause following her performance. "When you can find a man who can do that for me," she said, "then I'll marry him." But no man ever did. In 1931, while sitting onstage during a performance of Jongleur de Notre-Dame in Chicago, she decided that "I have given enough," went to her dressing room after the last curtain call...
...another suitor, obviously an Adams House resident who wasn't allowed to move off either, took her offer more seriously. "Dorm life is hell," he agreed. "When are you available for an audition...
...first baffling encounter with sex. He is also the central figure in this stunningly perceptive, crisply humorous novel. In his first book A Long and Happy Life, Reynolds Price told the amusing tale of Mile's gangly pretty sister, Rosacoke, who resorted to motherhood to win her laggard suitor. This novel takes the Mustian family back a dozen years or so. It is more richly textured, more artfully woven than A Long and Happy Life, subtly fabricating a world of startling and compelling beauty. The book is "a Southern novel" in the sense that the Odyssey is "a Greek...