Word: devereux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because, when someone displeased her, she could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over everything but her own prose style. A woman's gown was her "toilette"; on several occasions she referred to an enemy's appearance in a "lovely bead neckless"; bachelors were referred to as "young celibrates...
BORN. To Michelle Phillips, 37, singer and actress (Dillinger; Sam Marlow, Private Eye), and Grainger Nines, 33, actor: a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Austin Devereux Weight...