Word: elizabeth
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...Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices at Bucharest, where her buck-toothed Brother Carol is King of Rumania...
...ELIZABETH DILLING...
After a month spent in Soviet Russia in 1931 Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick (Mrs. Albert Wallwick) Dilling returned to her Chicago suburb to write and publish The Red Network, which includes in its list of some 1,300 U. S. radicals the names of Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Senator Borah, Professor Irving Fisher and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. At a hearing of the Illinois Senate committee investigating University of Chicago last month, Mrs. Dilling spent two hours exposing such "Reds" as Newton D. Baker, the late Jane Addams, Harold H. Swift ("the cream-puff type"), Louis D. Brandeis ("He contributes...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth T. Ross, high school teacher, was thoroughly mad. Suing for divorce, she charged Alfred C. Ross, certified public accountant, with 71 specific acts of cruelty, including 36 generally unhusbandly habits. Samples: He stayed in the bathroom for an hour and a half while dinner was waiting; he left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald...
Published last week was the second of the series, The Puritan Strain. Shrewdly made up of the time-tested ingredients of the familiar triangle plot, it tells the story of 40-year-old Elizabeth Condit Gates who, like the heroine of many a popular romance, fell high-mindedly in love with her husband's best friend. Author Baldwin takes many liberties with the conventions of sentimental fiction: 1) in showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony...