Word: cynthias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Sir Walter Peacock, 55, member of the Prince of Wales' staff; to Mrs. Irene Cynthia Humphreys; in London. The prince attended the wedding, but was unrecognized at first, and the bride drove about the streets for ten minutes, awaiting his arrival. The choir started the procession mistaking Lady Ian Malcolm for the bride. The prince, much amused, signed the register as first witness, insisted that the newlyweds leave the church ahead...
Sinner. Since marriage is a state of conflict, the theatres make much of it. Thompson Buchanan presents his version of the cosmic combat in a comedy, the title of which is derived by nicking the heroine's name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend...
...Plastic Age," filled schoolboys with a keen eagerness for going to college and their parents with grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...
...defeated Conservative candidate, J. M. Pike, scathingly recalled how Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia (Curzon) had poured out Curzon gold in the campaign, adding: "The electorate seemed to have be hypnotized by Mosley's worldly possessions. The main lesson of the election is that the conquest the Labor party by wealthy aristocrats has begun...
...Tory sire, hurried from London to champion Socialist Mosely. Finally the Mosely cohorts were swelled by onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald (Laborite). Smethwick bums and paupers cheered with loud good humor the stump speeches of this galaxy. Smethwick brats were soundly kissed by apple-cheeked Betty Baldwin and peftte Lady Cynthia Mosely. Betty Baldwin taunted Oswald Mosely with stooping to call Lady Cynthia "the Missus" for campaign purposes. That lady, indefatigable, harangued a Communist meeting; with a red flag in her hand, led the singing of the International, walked to the edge of the Smethwick slums, was whisked to her hotel...