Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
...Anna became La Comtesse de Castellane by a marriage solemnized in Manhattan by the late Archbishop Corrigan. After three children were born, La Comtesse obtained a civil divorce from Le Comte on grounds of infidelity. In 1908, she married Le Marquis de Talleyrand Perigord, Duc de Sagan...
Trial II. Anna refused to be represented at this trial. The marriage was declared void. Anna appealed...
Trial V. The Commission declared the marriage invalid. Anna appealed to the Pope who, to settle it once and forever, assigned three extra cardinals to the commission...
Best of all, perhaps, is the inevitable takeoff on some of the new Mid-Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...