Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chagrin of Scotland Yard its sleuths had to admit last week that they could not find a $35,000 diamond bracelet lost at the Duke of Kent's wedding by the No. 1 bridesmaid, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, dumpling daughter of the World's Wealthiest Woman, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina...
...offer. Halfway through the program she stopped to reminisce about Composer Claude Debussy. She was his first Melisande, although Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck fought to have the part sung by Soprano Georgette Leblanc. One night in Paris Debussy's young wife Lili wanted the composer to attend a rich woman's dinner party, asked Mary Garden to exert her influence. Debussy decided to go. A year later he left Lili for the hostess who was better able to provide for his exquisite tastes...
...years later after Claude Debussy had died Mary Garden again sang Melisande at the Opera-Comique. Lili was there and so was the wealthy woman who had taken her husband from her. "I have two seats," the first Mrs. Debussy told Mary Garden. "Claude is here with me." After the performance the two wives met and wept together in Mary Garden's dressing room. For Debussy, as for the world, Mary Garden was his ideal interpreter. In the score of her Pelleas et Melisande he wrote: "In the future others may sing Melisande but you alone will remain the woman...
...spite of his poverty, his rawboned, stoop-shouldered, ungainly appearance, women liked him. He was twice married, twice had to resign a teaching post because of scandalous rumors. On the second occasion, when friends warned him of impending trouble, Veblen fatalistically replied: "What is one to do if the woman moves in on you?" This philosophic detachment was typical of him. He was accustomed to giving all his students the same low grade, never checked their attendance, seldom set examinations. He discouraged ingenuous questions with: "I don't know, I'm not bothered that way." When his second wife enthusiastically...
...DARK ISLAND-V. Sackville-West -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Civilized man has seldom made God in the image of a woman; she ranks high but not highest in his holy hierarchy. In practice, however, the private shrines of even heterodox moderns are as apt to contain less as a god. In The Dark Island Author Sackville-West has enshrined such a figure. To masculine readers her goddess will seem a human but incomprehensible creature; women will recognize in her a gynecomorphic ideal...