Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocence is largely irrelevant. Queen of Scotland when she was six days old, Queen of France at 16, Mary had known power, security, ease, without having struggled for them, had no experience in statecraft when, at the age of 18, she took up the task of governing Scotland. Unlike Elizabeth, whose wits had been developed by imprisonment and general adversity, Mary had been sheltered all her life. She was cultivated, gracious, unawakened, essentially immature, when she found herself pitted against the greatest queen on earth. A Catholic, she discovered the reality of Protestant influence around her in the first week...
Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
...young widow when Edith Gould introduced her to Harry Symes Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel was amused and entertained by him, found him tactful, with a flair for drawing out unsuspected talents, with an al- most feminine desire to please and say the right thing. Penniless, Lehr was a "little brother of the rich," hobnobbed with Wanamakers, Goulds, Fishes, Astors, Oelrichs. Born in Baltimore, son of a once-wealthy importer, he consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts...
Sentimental, unworldly Elizabeth Drexel was amused and touched when Harry Lehr told her of the difficulties of living by one's wits. Courtship was brief and high-minded, although Elizabeth was hurt that Lehr pressed her for exact details of her fortune, wanted a marriage settlement. She gave him $25,000 a year and expenses. When he took his fiancee to lunch with Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Oelrichs, Mrs. Belmont, they passed judgment on her, told him frankly, "We will make her the fashion. You need have no fear." But on their wedding night he dined alone...