Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Aug. 16 you print a good letter from Mrs. Cecilia Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd...
Please be more careful, TIME, for I cannot deny that your magazine is bright and clever and often a real pleasure. CECILIA GRAHAM BROWN...
...CECILIA H. FULLER...
General von Seeckt discovered by a tactful question that the once so exalted princess did not want her Wilhelm to enlist in the Army for twelve years, as all German soldiers must, under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Princess Cecilia desired instead that the so gallant General should wink at the presence of her son with the Ninth Regiment during the Reichswehr's fall maneuvers (TIME, Sept. 27). Of course this could be arranged...
Cornered, the General took refuge in silence, refused to answer the princess for some weeks. He reflected that the lanky but athletic young man at whose presence he was asked to wink is, after all, the grandson and heir apparent of the erstwhile Kaiser. Princess Cecilia's son,* though he rule never as Wilhelm IV, may yet inherit the golden potency of a multimillionaire and live to reward well his friends...