Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy; Richard Aldrich de Liagre, producers). Feyest of the Rimplegars of Brooklyn is Mother Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive...
...Cecilia, attractive and intelligent young widow, was not exactly heartless but she had little affection to spare. The person she liked most was Emmeline, near-sighted but charming girl with whom she shared a London house when she was not traveling. Both Emmeline and Cecilia were attractive to men and went out a great deal, seldom together. Cecilia thought of marrying again but knew what was what, investigated matrimonial candidates with care. Emmeline. touchingly business-like in her travel agency, was blind as a newborn infant when if came to love. When Markie, clever bounder Cecilia had already seen through...
Married. Montagu Collet Norman, 61, longtime (since 1920) Governor of the Bank of England; and Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens Worsthorne, 33, divorced welfare worker, member of the London County Council, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon; furtively, day after announcement of engagement; in London at the dingy Chelsea Registry Office...
...courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze, in every case chased by the master's own hand...
...usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...