Word: tessa
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When he sees that she is more woman than child, Dodd realizes he has always loved her. Because he is married they decide on renunciation. When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack. "She said I was your fancy lady," boasts Tessa with childish innocence as Dodd carries her off happily to a little furnished room in Brussels, where she promptly and pathetically expires in his arms...
Best shot: Tessa silhouetted against a lighted window in symbolic crucifixion just before she dies...
...your April 3 issue p. 4, the protests by Tessa H. Fluhr and comments by Lillian and Walter Mendes concerning handsome Adolf bring to my mind the fact that the German expression "der scho'ne Adolph" was one formerly used for the second oldest profession (pimp). Present-day usage seems to have mollified this harsh meaning but it is still used oftener in a derisive sense than otherwise...
...Learn," too heartily and too fast; and the Gondolieri sang "Buon' giorno, signorine" like students at a Biergarten, "We're called Gondolieri" came off with speed and good-spirits, but without the whirling, infectious momentum that the song is capable of. In contrast to the chorus, the contadine Tessa and Gianetta showed from the moment that they were picked out of the crowd of flower-girls by the blindfolded young men that they were going to make the most of the two best ingenue parts in the Savoy Operas. Gilbert, in a particularly happy mood, made them two pert, attractive...
...Albert Sanger died, Tessa died, Lewis Dodd went back to the efficient arms of Florence Churcill, whom he had married without knowing exactly why. With things that way The Constant Nymph ended; the story of the Sanger family, Sanger's circus, seemed to be over. But Tessa's brothers, Sebastian and Caryl, were left. The Fool of the Family tells about them. With these two so different Sangers Margaret Kennedy continues the story that The Constant Nymph started...