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...Women. Older people have been skeptical ever since Nancy turned up at the Colony Restaurant in New York one night in May 1942 with thrice-married, 33-year-old Count Alfred de Marigny and announced that they had eloped. Nancy was 18 that week. Her father roared, her mother wept, her set raised their eyebrows. They were remembering De Marigny's first wife, well-endowed Lucie-Alice Cahen, an Alsatian girl whom he married in Paris in 1937. Four months later they were divorced, and the Count failed to observe the code and return the dowry...
...population took everything with a bitter resignation which had a terribly depressing effect on foreigners. The suffering is so tremendous that many people have been plunged into apathy." In the shelters the people crowded together for hours, listening to the howl of bombs, the crash of gunfire. Women wept, children cried...
...Longest Journey Forster despises his hero, Gerald, because Gerald is a prig and a bully. But he gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
Everywhere she goes she lends her pretty ear to tales of woe, turns her pretty smile on generals and privates without distinction and gives her strong shoulder to be wept upon by all and sundry. Bill calls her 'the G.I. girl friend...
...Hitler Wept. Pola has married only twice.** She wraps her romances in mystery by carefully concealing her fiancés' names, carefully dropping hints as to their nationalities, professions, wealth, renown. Rich and renowned men to whom Pola has been rumored engaged: Chicago Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, British Millionaire Lieut. Commander Glen Kid-ston, Cinema idols Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin. Most renowned man with whom Pola's name has been linked is Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 26, 1937). This most sensational of rumors about Pola hit the headlines over half of Europe, is said to have made...