Word: duer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...
Married. Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake, 65, famed U. S. surgeon; to a Miss Florence Drake, 24, nurse; in Toronto. Not until Dr. Blake confirmed this marriage was it known that he had been divorced in April by Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, whose divorce in 1914 from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., was the domestic sensation...
WELCOME HOME-Alice Duer Miller-Dodd Mead ($2). To compete with the fictional vogue for neuroses, stream-of-thought, documentary realism, Alice Duer Miller has done two novelettes, each with an actual plot: introduction, climax, denouement, elements as gratifying as they are oldfashioned...
...ladies helped immensely. They were Alice Duer Miller* writing into her first play (alone) much genial, glinting dialog; and Madge Kennedy, fascinating...