Word: elinor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt set out for a 7 a. m. canter through Washington's Potomac Park to see the cherry and magnolia trees in bloom. With her rode Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Federal Farm Board chairman, and President Roosevelt's Secretary Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Roosevelt's horse slid on the muddy bridlepath, fell to its knees. Mrs. Roosevelt was thrown into a mud puddle. Muddied but unhurt, she remounted, rode on until...
Last week, with Librarian Charles Knowles Bolton, 65, retiring after 35 years at the Athenaeum, every one thought it perfectly suitable that Miss Elinor Gregory should get the job. An erudite, quick-smiling, pleasant-voiced spinster, she had been Librarian Bolton's chief assistant for a decade, had lately been practically running the place. Said she: "Of course, the Athenaeum will remain exactly as it is." Also last week. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams was re-elected president of the Athenaeum, having served for a year...
...KLEEK-Elinor Mordaunt-Day ($2.50). Story of a South Sea "madam," by the author of Gin & Bitters...
With the exception of Poet Robert Frost and the possible exception of the late Elinor Wylie, Edwin Arlington Robinson is the only contemporary U. S. poet whose excellence is acknowledged by the critical choir. Unlike his colleague, Poet Robinson has at times warmed his publisher's heart by proving popular. His Tristram sold 85,000 copies, is still quietly on the move. Tristram readers may not all want a copy of Nicodemus, but Robinson readers will...
...RIPENING - Colette - Farrar & Rinehart. What Elinor Glyn used to be to thousands, Colette has increasingly become: purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening...