Word: evelina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engaged. Evelina Porter Gleaves, daughter of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves (retired); to Albert Morris Cohen, onetime commander...
Married. Josephus Daniels Jr., son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy and present editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer; to Miss Evelina Foster McCauley, at Nashville, Tenn...
Urged by George III to disclose the reason for her writing "Evelina," Fanny Burney is said to have stated with simpering naivete that she had "thought it would look very well in print". And, fortunately, the gentle lady was right: "Evelina" did look well in print. The formidable Dr. Johnson testified to the truth of that. But the isolated case of this authoress, who, by the way, was really an authoress, does not allow everyone to conclude that his writing must also appear to advantage on the printed page. From every side come puerile messages published by ball players...