Word: elinor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 26, daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick, radio preacher of Manhattan's Riverside Church; to Dr. Roger Sherman Downs, 27; in Rochester, N. Y. Both Drs. Fosdick & Downs are internes in Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital...
When the velvet Poetess Elinor Wylie proposed this alternative to the ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...
...whinny...like a young colt in distress." Sylvia Pankhurst, famed ex-suffraget leader, gave McKay a job reporting for her Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long...
...lucky for Elinor Glyn that she had found a way of making money, for her husband's involved affairs crashed six years before the War, and she had to sup port him and two daughters until his death in 1915. After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...
...back in England, her nearly native land, Elinor Glyn is an old lady, with two grandsons at Eton, but her hair has not yet turned grey. Her London drawing room has tiger skins galore, not one spittoon. Ending her romantic memories on a mystic note of hope, she says she confidently expects the Millennium, has made a wonderful discovery, which she uncorks in her final sentence: "God's in His Heaven-all's right with the World...