Word: relenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evenings later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...
...Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...
...Wall Street, greatest of all money marts, silence is neither golden nor popular. The greater the tumult, the greater the profits of the traders, the more stocks and bonds are being sold and resold, the more money is being borrowed and relent. Last week, the powers of The Street prepared to ask New York's Board of Aldermen to still the noises of riveting, pile driving. But it was to spare their ears for the more important sounds of money-changing...
...Francisco tongues wagged when word went out that Maria Jeritza would arrive next September with the Salome of Richard Strauss, dance there for the first time in the U. S. her version of the Seven Veils. The echo spread as far as Manhattan. Perhaps the Metropolitan would relent now, let Salome into her own repertoire. She is, according to Jeritza, not a bad girl, just a little wild. But the Metropolitan board, it seems, refuses to be convinced, stays now as it has been for the past 20 years, firmly anti-Salometic...
...line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...