Word: inamorata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those entertaining brothers, the Royal Rumanians, were at it again last week. King Carol II, still somewhat tender on the jaw where Prince Nicholas had punched him, forced a decision through the Bucharest Supreme Court that the marriage of slack-chinned Prince Nicholas and his buxom inamorata, Mme Jana Lucia Deletej, was nonexistent. Not satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner...
Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her. He even goes to her house, bringing sophistry to bear on her brainy husband. In defeat, like Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he is victorious...
...about to write based on his experiences as a war-prisoner in Turkestan. Page by page, as he writes it, it is sandwiched in between his journal entries. The same people appear in the diary as in the novel: Stanislaw, his wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish war-prisoners (Stanislaw, his friend Felix) sent...
...dilemma. Operating in Paris as editor of a scandal sheet he performs his extortions so skilfully that he finds himself admired by his victims and falls in love with one of them. The blackmailer is in a quandary trying to decide whether to reform himself or to disillusion his inamorata. Convinced that reformation is impossible, he blackmails the girl, sails for South Africa on a tramp steamer...
...propaganda but a chronicle of the Russian intellectuals. The scene is laid in Russia of some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin is a pale, near-sighted youth, long on brains, short on emotions, whose inamorata says to him: "You're slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university at St. Petersburg, transfers to the university at Moscow, joins the kaleidoscopic crowd of young...