Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time has not dealt too kindly with the theatre of the Nineties: it has dubbed once-famous plays hokum, once-famous players hams. But it has never questioned that in Lily Langtry, Lillian Russell, Maxine Elliott, the Nineties produced some of the most breathtakingly beautiful women ever seen on any stage...
...these three, only Maxine Elliott long survived the post-war world, and not as an actress: she quit the stage years ago. She had always hated acting, had never been too good at it. But it made her rich, it paved the way for her to become one of the world's great hostesses...
While guests at Juan-les-Pins bathed in her great pool cut out of solid rock, or slid down a long chute into the Mediterranean, Maxine Elliott, no longer beautiful, played with her famed monkey Kiki, ate whole chocolate layer cakes for lunch. She grew, old there, and monstrous fat. There, last week, she died...
This new activity was voted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee, consisting of Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School; Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; Elliott C. Cutler, Mosely Professor of Surgery; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...
Thurber, the Treasurer, who comes from Grosse Point, Michigan, and lives in Eliot House, chalked up 140 votes. His unsuccessful competitors and the votes cast for them were: Peter E. Pratt, 136; Calvin H. Elliott, Jr., 107; and James M. Baughart...