Word: elinore
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...literary occupant, the literary occupant read two books, connected enough to satisfy the greatest stickler for good connections. For both the books concerned nephews, one, the glass relative of the Gentle Cardinal Peter Bon; the other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying, "I ask you?" But the voice was unfair. Just because a lady has divorced two husbands and married a poet, she need not fear to walk with Dickens, even in a room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In fact Dickens might rather like...
...Graphic ignorantly referred to Elinor Wylie as Elinor Wiley. Also the Graphic ignorantly referred to Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney as "the former Alice...
...some of the living are paraded with the dead Senator across the ridiculous and scandalous scene?Helen Hay, Rebecca Knox, Edith Root, Elinor Wylie,* who "had not then distinguished herself by her poetry or her love affairs, save for occasional passionate little verses"?not to mention Brandegee's "beloved ideal" not mentioned by name but described as "the wife of another distinguished statesman." This unknown woman, poor thing, was described at length...
...Only Thing. When Elinor Glyn rolls up her sleeves and goes at one of those mythical kingdom stories, you can pretty well figure out what is going to happen. The hero is going to save the Princess from marrying the nasty old king. There is going to be a revolution and ultimate happiness. And so it is. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel, plus the somehow inevitable fascination of this romantic pattern, make a pretty entertaining picture...
...VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW-Elinor Wylie - Doran ($2.00). "Peter Innocent beheld a golden griffin lift his wings to fan the air; a stag of azure glass dappled with the same gold, stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...