Word: eugenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout her diary Betsy, in good 18th century style, called her husband by his surname. By contrast, Eugenia was a igth century romantic. The great love of her life, with an impecunious Scot, was troubled and tempestuous. "He could not bear to see me less rich than I ought to be," she wailed in her diary. "But if he has any feeling could he prefer to see me waste my life in wretchedness-?" Quarrels, tears, reconciliations followed. "How different is the Love of a Woman to that of a Man!" wrote Eugenia. Betsy looked on sympathetically, Fremantle less...
...years went. As she grew older, Betsy became more observant, noting the good &. bad manners of the nobility, describing charitable dinners for the poof, fretting over the escapades of Eugenia and her four other sisters. One day in December 1.819 Fremantle fell dead, and the following day, for the first time in 30 years, Betsy made no entry in her diary...
...adviser, Dr. Eugenia Hunter, spoke slowly at first, reminding the girls of how the project had begun and of how the scholarship worked. "I have watched this scholarship grow," said she, "as I watched the girl grow with it." Then, turning to the most popular member of the class, she broke the secret. "The girl who received it is the girl you have just elected your everlasting president-Lila June Rainey...
...They left their native Poland as the Red army moved in in 1944. The father, Jan, held a railroad job briefly, but now is unemployed. For seven years he has lived from camp to camp with his wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot on one lung-active TB. Ineligible...
...Infanta Maria de los Dolores Victoria Felipa Mercedes Luisa Carlota Eugenia de Borbon y Orleans is a member of the Bourbon family whose dynasty was replaced in 1931 by Spain's second republic. Her sister married Don Juan, Pretender to the Spanish throne. The Infanta Dolores' first husband was Polish Prince Auguste Czartoryski, Duke of Klewan and Zukow...