Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffered a very unfortunate career. In the earthquake-fire of 1923 her father, a manual laborer, became missing. Her mother had to care for eight children as a girl laborer. The strain was too great for her. The eldest daughter had to be sent to Tochigi Prefecture as a woman of ill fame. She had to become a geisha last year and in May last spring she had to serve on a 4-year contract for a loan on 1,500 yen. At that time only 1 yen remained in her mother's hands...
...Arrested at Kagoshima and held overnight was an Australian woman named Gertrude Edward Snyder, who had made a practice of wandering off the beaten tourist track in the Japanese back country...
...Lohengrin, Introduction to Act IIIWagner (Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *Pavane Ravel *Carmen, Suite Bizet Aragenaise--Intermezzo--Gypsy Dance *Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *Fifth Symphony in E minor, Andante Cantabile Techaikovsky *Espana, Rhapsody Chabrier *"Music in the Air," Selection Kern *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Strauss *"Only One Vienna," March Schrammel Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...
...ancestry and prospects. It looked like a conventionally respectable marriage. But Fitz, under his cool exterior, was madly in love with his wife, gradually lost hope of her ever reciprocating. Good 19th-Centuryites both, they never discussed the matter. When Clara finally discovered that even a good woman can fall physically in love, it was too late: Fitz-Greene had gone on a despairing bender in Philadelphia, picked up an unmentionable complaint. For some strange reason the doctors could do him no good. After holding his wife at arm's length for as long as he could stand...
...friend and lover. The book ends with the preliminary divorce proceedings that will set Hervey and Nicholas free to marry. Long before this she knows that Nicholas can never make her happy; life has taught her to be a realist, and he is still a dreamer. But her stubborn woman's honesty will not let her deny her tragic love...