Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOLD A HUSBAND-Dorothy Dix - Doubleday, Doran...
...Greece and Rome the lovesick asked the oracle. In the modern U. S., hundreds of thousands of them ask Dorothy Dix...
Gimlet-eyed, grandmotherly, soft-drawling Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) is a Southern gentlewoman who as a child liked to ride, hunt, shoot and play with the pickaninnies. A half-demented old family retainer taught her to read: by twelve she knew Shakespeare, Scott and Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...
Last week Dorothy Dix published her second volume of distilled love-lore for the pathetic public that sends her more than 500 letters daily. Wives with husband trouble will read that they must be patient. Husbands in woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken...
...Wells Root and his collaborators with notable problems. Houston's career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing him as the red man's ambassador to his friend, Andrew Jackson...