Word: diana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children of Rufus are three-Diana, the eldest, is cold, fascinating, a little cynical, dangles her feet over innumerable precipices, and has always managed to pull them back in time; Claudia, the second daughter, is an instance of war-marriage in haste and equally hasty repentance; the youngest is Sheila, of the jazz...
...Diana is brought back to normalcy by the spectacle of the tragedy of Sheila. Finally she acquires a complete new soul by the convenient expedient of falling in love with Lloyd Haitian d, a somewhat insistently high-minded young lawyer, through whose disapproving eyes the author watches most of the iniquitous pageant of hip-flasks and jazz...
...Cotillo-Leininger bills, designed to prevent medical "experimentation " on children or animals, after a spirited hearing at which prominent witnesses appeared on both sides. Former State Senator Charles W. Walton, Mrs. Belle De Rivera of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. George Arliss, Mrs. Diana Belais, and others, for the " anti-vivisectionists," appealed to the legislators to prevent alleged horrible practices on poor orphan children...
...Lady Diana Manners, English beauty: " I was arrested for the sixth time for parking my car where it obstructed traffic. It cost...
...facial expressions as well as her gestures are convincing and true. She is the center of attraction at all times. E. E. Clive illustrates, in the role of Mr. Frampton, a fine, genial gentleman whose honor seems to have been smirched. Others, whose work is especially noteworthy, are Diana Storm, with her internal struggle between religious truth and loyalty to the girl she has brought up from infancy and Charles Warburton, as the awkward but loyal country mechanic. The vivacity and excellent character portrayal of Elma Royton contributes materially to the success of the play. Her eyes are the most...