Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared to be only fishing in the River Tweed, the sudden announcement from Balmoral that King George and Queen Elizabeth will next year become the first reigning Britons ever to set foot in North America was recognized as an opening move by Son Neville to attempt the construction of Father Joseph's proposed transatlantic flying buttress of peace...
Married. Dr. Hugh Cabot, 66, consulting surgeon at Rochester, Minn.'s famed Mayo Clinic, militant advocate of socialized medicine; and Elizabeth Cole Amory, 36-year-old widow; both for the second time; in Hingham, Mass...
BLACK Is MY TRUELOVE'S HAIR-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
...That Elizabeth Madox Roberts was lost in one of these treacherous literary culs-de-sac became painfully clear to most critics three years ago, when she published her obscure, mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven. A difficult, humorless book, it had nothing of the earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity that made her first novel, The Time of Man, a best-seller and a critic's favorite. Instead of plain Kentucky hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about...
...while she lives down her disgrace in her home town. Weakened by a few cloudy, symbolical passages, Black Is My Truelove's Hair is nevertheless a lively story, and Dena Janes is a right pretty girl. But to her admirers the book's biggest news is that Elizabeth Madox Roberts is out of her blind alley and safe again in her old Kentucky home...