Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduated from a genteel ladies' seminary at 16, married at 18, Dorothy Dix was thrown on her own resources by an invalid husband. Fear of the poorhouse produced a nervous breakdown, to recover from which friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...
...Picayune, Dorothy Dix was soon covering general assignments, as well as writing her weekly article for women. "Sunday Salad" slowly gathered such an audience that in 1901 Dorothy Dix was hired away by the Hearstian New York Journal...
...Manhattan she developed into one of the most fabulous sob sisters of the gaudy, pre-War journalistic era. She covered many a killing in & out of Manhattan, sobbed her way in print through so much murder testimony that a courtroom bromide attached itself to her: "Dorothy Dix has arrived. The trial may now proceed." By 1908, Dorothy Dix's feature ("Dorothy Dix Talks") was appearing daily...
...past 20 years her method has changed little. Her counsel on domestic problems and affairs of the heart is usually characterized by a firm practicality. When two youths asked whether they should marry rich or poor girls, Miss Dix candidly told them, that while love was the basis of happy marriage, always to remember that money was a handy thing. Each young man married a prosperous lady. One later complained that he had been wrongly advised. Hedged Dorothy Dix: "He couldn't have been very much in love with her in the first place...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...