Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SILVERS Elizabeth...
...Youngquist to the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Almost entirely responsible for this appointment was Mr. Youngquist's new chief, U. S. Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast about for a successor to Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt. Candidates there were galore from every State but the President's requirements were high: a thoroughgoing Dry, possessed of a sound legal mind and ample industry, beyond the influence of front-page publicity. Such a man Mr. Mitchell told President Hoover he would find in Mr. Youngquist. Acceptance...
Sued for Divorce. King Gaines Gillette, son of King Camp Gillette (safety razors); by Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell Gillette; at Reno. Grounds: incompatibility. Last week they motored to the Stanford-Southern California game after which Mrs. Gillette went to Reno for a "most friendly divorce," her husband returning to Hollywood...
...sort of airless middle class Victorian household. His parents, blindfolded and swaddled by sexual ignorance and sentimentalism, had tumbled into marriage and lived at leisure in shabby gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When...
...Elizabeth, Countess Russell and von Arnim, authoress of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April, known to the public as "Elizabeth...