Word: annabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...
Nelson Curtis, 3rd., -- Miss Annabel Eshleman, Milton...
...work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract with Osso Films. Last year Clair called her back for July 14. He gets along much better with amiable, unambitious Pola...
...burst into tears when called upon to vote for War. At the speakers' table sat Mary Anderson, onetime immigrant girl and garment worker whom President Wilson appointed first Woman's Bureau Director of the Labor Department ; Genevieve Cline, first woman Federal judge (New York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave...
...portraits arrived in custody of astute Gabriel Wells, who vies for newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest...