Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood, N. J., headed Englewood's City Planning Commission for four years, took part in many a community and charity enterprise...
While dapper, prolific Biographer Emil Ludwig was poking among historic relics in a Corsican museum, a bronze statue of Jerome Bonaparte, youngest of Napoleon's four brothers, toppled, cracked him smartly on the pate. Moaned Emil Ludwig: "I had too many things to say about Jerome ... in my book [Napoleon']. He has his vengeance...
Thus originated the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Vardis Fisher, a descendant of the Mormons, last week made into a brilliant 769-page Harper Prize Novel, Children of God, this story of Mormons and of their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
...lover, Sir Godfrey Webster, coarse, handsome and ostracized. But Sir Godfrey called it off at the time a new waltz, Ach du lieber Augustin, was sweeping England and a jam of carriages was bearing invitations to the door of a young Lord who had just published a book called Childe Harold...
...true romantic. He "had a robust Eighteenth-Century mocking kind of outlook." When she saw him, Caroline Lamb wrote: "Bad, mad and dangerous to know." A week later she wrote: "That beautiful pale face will be my fate." They went through a curious mock marriage, exchanged vows, signed a book as Byron and Caroline Byron. Byron's confidante in this and later affairs was William Lamb's mother, Lady Melbourne, whom he described as "the best friend I ever...