Word: cordelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theater, the old hook was sharpened for the first time in a century. With an apologetic epilogue to appease a generation of Bardolators, the Oxford University Players took a chance on Tate's happy Lear. Instead of a cruel death by hanging, Heroine Cordelia eventually got her man (Edgar) and a fatherly blessing from a mentally restored Lear. Risking all, the Oxford undergraduates even wore the ruffled costumes of Garrick's day, which gave their stage movements a look of mincing foppishness...
Drummers' Stock. In Atlanta, the Cordelia Hosiery Shop displayed 300 pairs of sheer black nylons as customer bait, within 48 hours sold them all to Salvation Army lassies in town for a convention...
...Died. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, 93, the original "Little Eva" of Uncle Tom's Cabin; in Belmont, Mass. Aged four, she played in the first dramatization of the novel, performed at the Troy Museum in Troy...