Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that some day. . . . But the future gets a forced growth when Philippe meets a ripe lady who has a conveniently neighboring villa. She casts a greedily speculative eye on Philippe's 16-year-old bronzed body. When he brings her flowers, she does the rest. He is horrified, fascinated, sneaks back to her at night, again & again, again. Vinca guesses his secret, confronts him with it. Terribly sorry but terribly proud...
...invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated...
Lounging about his villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer...
...English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch...
...very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church...