Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...
...Leonard's wits almost matched her miniature physical perfections. They carried her so far that she failed to notice how they spoiled her, undermined her values. She could get an Alan Pomeroy so easily by the time she met him that she could not relish him - rufous, genuine, generous, but so obtainable. A Jerry Davis, her natural match at seduction and vastly her superior in experience, could destroy her indifference with one infallible weapon, greater indifference...
...after marrying Alan, gets Jerry back from Dolly on the rebound, helping him terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...
Dolly and Alan, of course, come through unscathed together, with far less assistance from their creator than might be expected...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Alan Gillespie Rinehart, a daughter, Gratia Houghton Rinehart; in Manhattan. Mr. Rinehart is son of Dr. Stanley M. Rinehart & Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mrs. Rinehart is niece of U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Alanson B. Houghton...