Word: unguent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero Coe left her for a flawlessly lovely pianist, with a mouth "well-shaped and bee-blown and neatly outlined in some wet red unguent." Her name was Roxane. When she began to romp with Abner, Roxane neglected to mention that she had married his best friend. So after Abner went to war, he spent his furloughs pursuing her through the back streets of married love. The U.S. State Department in Paris decided Abner should be given U.S. papers. He made his way to safety in America, while Roxane and her husband died as hostages before a Nazi firing squad...