... little time in marrying again, and on his fifty-fourth birthday married Esther Col- throp, who was over thirty years his junior. She was a very beautiful young woman, as you will have noticed from her portraits but he had been married no more than a few ...

... command of Benjamin Briggs, Massachusetts deep-water sailorman. It so hap pened that somewhere between 1869 and 1871 Briggs married an uninspiring little mouse of a New Jersey girl, Mary Sellars and almost immediately he stepped aboard his new command the ...

... Burne- Jones and to my own two portraits, the one by Orpen, painted in 1920 and the other by Augustus John, the year I' was married. Come along and see the whole show. We spent the next hour or so in the huge library looking at the Courtenay portraits, ...

... slave of fashion. I'll be glad when the carnival's over. Why? I'm going back to London then. I hope not. We could be married in Nice. You forget what I've told you. I'm a career girl. You've played about with career enough. We could have a wonderful ...

... been present at the London opening I am certain he would have howled with laughter. He had written it for two young women, married for five years, who suddenly discover the magic of early romance at the expected arrival of their former mutual French lover ...

... eccentric dancing to stop up an economic gap. But, in the main, life was a steady round of Yiddish repertory on tour. He married, twenty-nine years ago this year, an actress in the company, Bella Finkel. They were making 20 to 25 dollars a week, and they ...

... the contemporary French cinema, this absurd tale of the unsentimental education of a young girl in whose family women never marry has the gaiety, wit and lightness we used to expect from the French cinema before darkness descended upon it. The naughty nineties ...

... last Odysseus returns and shoots the lot with his great bow, as such unsubtle Greeks deserve. Nowadays, having at a pinch married them all by the time her husband comes back, Penelope could live with each of them* a week at a time, including Odysseus a ...

... Then followed the slow, upward grind of the professional entertainer. By 1930 he was earning 10 a week, which was enough to marry on, and by 1940, when he joined the Army, this had risen to a tidy £2,000 a year. On his discharge in 1944 he had no difficulty ...

... does happen to the younger generation, after the rector has converted the town to tolerance Does the daughter (Susan Douglas) marry her engagingly gangling white admirer (Seth Arnold) or not And can it be by intention that the moral, as of Pinky, seems to ...

... used. Thomas Carlyle and his wife were more fre quently, and for longer spaces, apart than must have been usual for orthodox married couples of their day. A great proportion of these letters were, thus, written by Jane to her husband. Of the remainder, many ...

... them. Not at the top, though say half-way down the list. He made a beginning. Sheila. He paused. Sfie was a Mrs. Flane now, married to a smart young solicitor. A bit cold-blooded, inviting the daughter of the man you 'd murdered. Even though he was becoming ...