Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village. The Deans, once wealthy and influential, have gradually lost their position, the Lattimers on the contrary have gained as the rivals lost, until now old Nathan Lattimer wishes to purchase the last bit of property which the Deans hold, to use for a modern business block. Elizabeth Dean refuses to be driven from her little millinery shop which serves also as a home. To develop complications she is betrothed to John, the unfaithful son and heir of old Lattimer. His efforts to win her love again enrage his father and apparently are doomed to failure...
...Duke of York: "A poet sent me some verses about my coming marriage to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (who is of Scotch descent), in which he eulogized the 'union of the thistle and the rose.' I am pleased, but think the flowers should be reversed...
...ENCHANTED APRIL-the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden-Doubleday ($1.90). Four London women, leaving their husbands behind them, spend an enchanted April in an Italian castle. The tiny rapier of the author's wit, her penetration and her sympathy, give the characters reality and the setting charm...
WILL SHAKESPEARE-Shakespeare is represented as a sort of divine sponge. When properly squeezed by a woman, an immortal play trickles out. Squeezing is done by the overpossessive wife whom he deserts (Winifred Lenihan); by Queen Elizabeth (Haidee Wright) ; and chiefly by the " dark lady of the sonnets " (Katherine Cornell). It is these three stirring performers who make Will Shakespeare excellent...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...