Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld. The late Elinor Wylie, who sometimes wrote in a similar vein, was apt to betray her consciousness of the aristocratic stylist at work, but Mrs. Parker betrays nothing except her sense of derision...
...COLLECTED PROSE OF ELINOR WYLIE-Knopf ($3.50). The four novels and occasional prose of the late distinguished authoress, collected in one volume...
...little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor of the Spectator; and Philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn...
...Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published on the day of his death.* Died. Elinor Medill Patterson, 78, daughter of the Chicago Tribune's founder, Joseph Medill; relict of its onetime editor, Robert Wilson Patterson; aunt of its present publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick; mother of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News and of Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald...
...back out, running the risk of being called "yellow." Herndon made no public reply, but a school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily. The whole business was soon forgotten by the public, until last month when Liberty published an article by Aviatrix Elinor Smith entitled "I'm Fed Up With Stunt Flying." This revived the old gossip, with embellishments. Excerpts...