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Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning, Aunt Teresa says she is haunted by Uncle Lucy's spectre, gibbering in her lingerie. She orders an immediate departure. Sylvia's husband cannot go, so is left behind. The S. S. Rhinoceros puffs to England with all the polyglots, via Hongkong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Gibraltar. Georges, secretly honeymooning with Sylvia, is more satisfied than ever to leave his life and love in the hands of Fate and Aunt Teresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sportive Fatalism* | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Aunt Teresa, a domineering invalid who in 1914 rapt Emmanuel Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sportive Fatalism* | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...where Aunt Teresa's ménage soon follows. Funds have ceased coming from her brother Lucy in Krasnoyarsk. The Vanderflints are indignant; Lucy writes it was the Bolsheviki; they don't believe him. In Harbin, they all infest a duchess's flat, loaned. Georges and Sylvia are caught kissing. Aunt Teresa is delighted; they shall marry. They are delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sportive Fatalism* | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Under this last circumstance, Aunt Teresa cannot bear to lose Sylvia. She breaks the engagement. They acquiesce, Sylvia in self-sacrifice, Georges in indecision. Promptly Aunt Teresa marries off Sylvia to a Belgian officer with a bobbing Adam's apple and canary mustache. On Sylvia's wedding night she sends this docile husband home alone. Sylvia and Georges see what they are missing and sleep together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sportive Fatalism* | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Harold Eisenberg, Chairman, Miss Estelle Eisenberg; C. H. Tryner, Miss Evelyn Janowich; Sidney Myers, Miss Brownette Goldberg; Solomon Elsky, Miss Helen Elsky; Leo Berkowitz. Miss Sylvia Berkowitz; James Albert, Miss Mildred Levine; J. S. Mangan, Miss Sylvia Hale; D. S. Harrison, Miss Barbara Hoffman; Sidney Hoffman Jr., Miss Helen Grant; V. T. Braman, Miss Virginia Hale; Arthur Rubin, Miss Dorothy Landsbirger; Ralph Manheim, Miss Janice Tarlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE BOX LISTS FOR JUNIOR FESTIVITY | 3/4/1925 | See Source »

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