Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McLeans had the finest honeymoon money could buy. To top it off, Evalyn dropped in at Cartier's in Paris, bought herself a jeweled ornament called the Star of the East ($120,000) and smuggled it through the U. S. Customs. Father paid up, of course. Another time when Evalyn and Ned went abroad, to get over having had their first baby, Evalyn won about $70,000 at Monte Carlo and they set off to drive to Paris. When they got there, having beaten the train time by ten minutes, they found that their chauffeur, forgotten in the back...
...Evalyn was growing up, and there was just no holding the girl. She was high-spirited, and that was a fact. Father chuckled and said she was a caution. They could not keep her in school, she did not seem to like school, but she got all the education money could buy. In Paris, for instance, the Walshes got clubby with Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Evalyn was allowed to touch her stomacher. When they let Evalyn go abroad on her own to study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles...
There was someone else her parents did not want her to marry, and that was young Ned McLean. The McLeans, who owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had struck it rich a generation or so before the Walshes. Even Evalyn could see that Ned McLean was pretty thoroughly spoiled. But "he was a dear when he was sober. . . . When he was not spree-drinking he often led a most exemplary life; he loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after...
...spite of Ned's drinking Evalyn tried to be a good mother to the four children she somehow had. When she gave her first little boy a children's party she never spent less than $15,000 on it. And to keep him from becoming a snob she bought him a little colored playmate, had him washed, perfumed, dressed in Paris clothes. That experiment, however, was not a success. When the McLeans became great friends with President Harding and the Ohio Gang, Evalyn had high hopes of Ned's ultimate reformation, but he was inevitably headed...
Looking back on her 49 feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never...