Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth Jaffray, White House housekeeper during four administrations, was induced to write some of her reminiscences for Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. She classifies the Presidents and their wives thus...
...Newark, N. J., presents were given, speeches made, and an old woman stood up to thank her friends for remembering her. She, one Elizabeth L. Gray, had completed her thirty-third year in Bamberger's department store. She managed a department...
Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy...
...critic is no longer the white haired sage whose years and experience have fitted him for the task of judging the merit of literary endeavors, but the child of twelve whose rompers take the ink spots as her brilliant pen splashes on its critical way. Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, English literature became for the first time truly English. Chaucer it is true took for his characters inhabitants of England, but if one reads contemporary Continental literature one may find the identical personalities. Shakspere on the other hand, placed the action of some of his dramas in foreign countries, but the characters are purely English...