Word: tintagel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine. Thereafter she shares the limelight with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth, is making a brilliant marriage herself. At this point The Buccaneers breaks...
...Jerome H. Louchheim's colt Pompoon, favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, smartly ridden by Jockey Harry Richards: the Paumonok Handicap, feature race of the first day of the New York racing season; by a neck, from Marshall Field's Tintagel; at Jamaica...
...Franks, find an object of adoration. His philosophical father intimated his errand was foolish but let him go. If Palamede had not been so romantically inclined he would have been quickly disillusioned; he soon found the slave's panegyrics on chivalry were exaggerated. But then he came to Tintagel, met lovely Isolde, cowardly King Mark's Irish bride. Isolde had no eyes for anyone but Tristan, a light-loving, thick-skinned rascal, Mark's hated nephew. That was all right with Palamede. His intentions toward her were almost unbelievably honorable. He never noticed that Brangain. Isolde...