Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Girls Grow Wise" is the subtitle. The brief story is that of a Montmartre revue star-her love-affair with a young French lieutenant. Superficially neither an artistically promising nor a morally edifying subject, it grows under Author Colette's intuitive fingers into a completely charming, almost persuasive idyll...
...love with André, 19-year-old French boy who wants to be a sculptor, her parents forbid them to see each other. Later Jane marries Stephen, a perfectly respectable match, but is never really in love with him. In her long married life she has only one affair, with the never-do-well husband of one of her best friends, but after he has kissed her she sends him away, never sees him again. In her late middle age, in Paris (where she has gone for the wedding of her divorced daughter to her divorced nephew), she meets...
...fiery, he persuaded her to leave her husband, come live with him on 14th St. When their money ran out, disillusion began to set in. She left him, went back to her husband. He set to work to exorcise her magic by writing this record of their love-affair, his subsequent adventures as stage-manager, playwright, carpenter bohemian. His intensity, his uncompromising honesty have saved his subject from being either offensive or uninteresting...
...over 100 million [new] names on the register." This is too staggering an order for Sir John Simon and colleagues. They recommend extending the adult franchise in British India from 2.8% not to 100%, but to 10% of the population. By and large the whole Report is a 10% affair, sure to anger Indian moderates (20%) and to render Gandhites (100%,) blue-purple with disgruntled rage...
When her family allowed some of her poetry and letters (carefully edited) to be printed, rumor grew that Emily had had an unhappy love affair, but who the man was nobody knew for certain. Biographer Genevieve Taggard says she has discovered him, has sworn statements to prove it. Says she: his name was George Gould, a lanky Amherst undergraduate (he was 6 ft. 8 in.), later an eloquent divine of Worcester, Mass. Emily loved him, would not marry him against her father's wishes. After twelve years he took a wife; Emily died a virgin...