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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face." In addition to the loss of his estates and honors, the revolution had cost the Prince his son, and most of his ambition. In 1814 his enormous wealth was restored to him and Sophie, whose influence was then uncertain, followed him to Paris, endured rebuffs and humiliations, waited, wrote cunning letters and cherished the one great stupid passion of her life-to be received at court. Slowly she ingratiated herself, devoting her tenacity, her resourcefulness, her frowsy full-blown beauty to the sordid ends of money and social position...
...radio announcer, describing the takeoff, deliberately lied about the way she was dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations, she pretended to understand, thinking as she had in school, "I'll get it all explained to me after class." Confused and uncertain in the presence of radio experts, she was nevertheless gratified that her family looked impressed even when she told them, in technical language, of howling blunders she had committed. As the Lindberghs started for the frozen North, someone in the Morrow family gave her a handkerchief, saying thoughtfully, "You will probably...
...Roly-poly Mr. Burroughs, who swore that he did not know the whereabouts of his boss, roly-poly Mr. Hopson, was equally uncertain about A. G. & E.'s corporate setup. "I can't any more tell you the corporate organization of all the companies than you can tell me the corporate set-up of the alphabetical agencies of the Government...
Discovering that big psychopathic institutions did not welcome dipsomaniacs, whose cure is long and uncertain, William Seabrook encountered legal and medical difficulties in entering the institution he had chosen.* But they were nothing compared with the difficulty of getting out again...
...verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them a few verses of classical French poetry. Her brother Gerald (Dartmouth...