Word: cordelia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spang Beauty" CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode-Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...
...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...
With the dark Chantrells nothing was regarded as insuperable between them and what they wanted. A feud between Chantrells and Penmarches only heightened Stephen's determination to have Sally Penmarch, and the betrothal of Preston Baimbridge, the one man Cordelia had fixed upon, to Sally Penmarch "fazed" Cordelia no whit, even on the wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after...
...story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...
Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...