Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOUSE IN PARIS - Elizabeth Bowen-Knopf...
...Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend...
...Dublin (1899), she was taken to England when she was 7, but has always spent her summers in Ireland, and still keeps up Bowen's Court, her family's 18th Century country house. Because of her mother's early death and her father's remarriage, Elizabeth Bowen left home at 19, lived with relations or hand-to-mouth in European hotels and boardinghouses. When she was 23 she married one Alan Cameron, went to live outside Oxford, and settled down to write...
...portrait painters, print makers, sculptors, etc. are now at work under his direction on 327 projects that will cost the Government $3,000,000. The Government has set up free art schools in New York City, Nashville, Raleigh, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Gainesville and Dade City, Fla., Columbus, Grand Rapids, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J., has opened art galleries in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia...
TIME said: "The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips who . . . developed the idea years ago. . . ." Her patent was granted in 1924.-ED. Snips Sirs: Let the chronic savers of TIME throw their hands on high at such blasphemy as snipping the pages of TIME, but we announce a new game. We snip out the pictures of such notables as we feel everyone should know and present them to our guests to identify. Such red faces and stuttering! We now have about 75 pictures and we are still going strong. It's pleasant pastime...