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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life bringing order on a large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful nobles as the Duke of Burgundy openly his enemies. The whole kingdom was exhausted by the Hundred Years' War. Fertile regions were wastelands; brigandage, starvation, lawlessness...
...beautiful, Diana von Wassilko is the kind of girl who gives and goes. In her coolly amorous passage through the social high spots of Europe, she has many calls on her generosity. When the story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm...
...poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have been authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova on the Memoirs, then takes the wind out of his hero's sails by pointing...
...Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story...