Word: cordelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having seen to the last detail of their preparations for a gala performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Civic Theatre, officials of the Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When...
...warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce Connelly's bust of Cordelia, daughter of Lear. Her costume, contours and hairdress (a loose, high knot) will be preserved but completely lost will be the unrouged freshness, the amazing vitality of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...
...return, Carr was supposed to be a credit to the firm and to marry Ainsley's nice but not very attractive daughter Catherine. Carr was a success in a business way, but before he was old enough to realize his other duty he fell desperately in love with Cordelia, daughter of his father's worst enemy. In spite of unanimous opposition they married and were forgiven, but Carr lost his chance of a fortune. He prospered, however, and when old Mr. Ainsley died, Carr was managing the firm and making a pretty penny for Catherine, who had inherited...