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Nina convinces Thomas to allow her to take back her role. Towards the end of the ballet's second act, Nina is distracted by a hallucination and loses her balance during a lift, causing a male dancer to drop her, infuriating Thomas. Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily preparing to play Odile.
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Dorothy Sayers' co-author, under the pseudonym of Robert Eustace, was Dr Eustace Barton, a physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers. Barton suggested to Sayers the scientific theme crucial to the novel's dénouement, which concerns the difference between a naturally produced organic compound and the corresponding synthetic material, and ...
Sayers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Sayers, New Zealand athlete; Ben Sayers, early professional golfer; Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer; Edna Sayers (1912–1986), Australian cyclist; Edward Sayers (aviator) (1897–1918), English World War I flying ace; Edward Sayers (doctor) (1902–1985 ...
Cournos pressed Sayers to have sex with contraception, but she, a High Anglican, resisted to avoid what she called "the taint of the rubber shop". [6] Their relationship foundered on the mismatch of expectations, [ 6 ] and within two years Cournos – apparently not believing in the ideas he had professed – had married somebody else. [ 7 ]
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On 1 January 1926, the date specified by Sayers, two important property statutes came into force in England: the Law of Property Act 1925 and the Administration of Estates Act 1925. The latter, corresponding most closely with the ‘Property Act’ of the novel, swept away the old rules on intestacy [ 8 ] and specified by way of a six-point ...
Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in Busman's Honeymoon, the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's wedding. The characters appeared thereafter only in a few short stories and other published pieces, revealing only glimpses of ...