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Word: ernita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...SACRIFICIAL GOAT ? Ernita Lascelles ? Boni ($2.00). Joan Candler, waitress in her mother's boarding house, had an exhausting time becoming Joan Chard, that promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Janet March | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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