Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to be a big day for both Ethel and Joe. Ethel's brother Jed is bringing his fiancée Babby for family inspection. Joe's sister Cornelia is coming down from Hollywood to spend the weekend. Most important for Joe is a call from Monica, his secretary and truelove, that she is bringing out the McKelveys that afternoon. Maybe Joe will be able to sell McKelvey that plot of land on the canyon's top. If he cannot, he is bankrupt, ruined...
...Cornelia, almost suicidal with grief at the loss of her only child, arrives hoping to find some solace in her brother's family. But Ethel and her children are worse than she had dreamed. Monica comes with the McKelveys who are just about to climb the canyon and look at the land, when solicitous Ethel insists on their having tea instead. Jed and Babby come late. Jed learns from Hertha, to his horror, that she is pregnant with a child of his. Dinner is served, and a long time...
...like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...
Shortly after Congressman Louis T. McFadden of the 13th Pennsylvania District had accused President Hoover of treason on the War Debts last winter, Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Governor's wife and no political friend of the President, announced her Republican candidacy for the House from Mr. McFadden's district. Last week 15th District voters renominated Mr. McFadden who returned to the House to receive an ovation from his colleagues...
...Miss Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, world president of the Y. W. C. A., arrived in New York last week. Mem ber of a famed Dutch family (her father was a Deputy in the States-General, two of her brothers are in the diplomatic service), she helped organize the Dutch na tional Y. W. C. A. in 1920, headed it from 1926 until 1930 when she became the first Continental president of the World's Council...