Word: teuffel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under the care of the sinister Württemberg court physician. Dr. Julius von Teuffel, who fed her a hypnotic drug called sulfonal. At this point the proliferating plot begins to evoke Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl...
...World. Von Teuffel, suggest the violently pro-Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved...
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