Word: fairfaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick on you?" He asked rippling Paulette Goddard with elaborate sweetness: "Take away your face and your figure and what have you got?" Of Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax he naughtily inquired: "Where do you learn all the things you tell the young folks...
Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...
...raise our price from 3? to 4? and we wanted to find something to help us over the bump. We were particularly interested in improving our circulation among young women-they're pretty important these days. We hadn't had anything like a lovelorn column since Beatrice Fairfax petered out about a year...
Married. Belle Wyatt Roosevelt, 22, daughter of the Major Kermit Roosevelts; and John Gorham Palfrey Jr., 23, Harvard '40; in Fairfax, Va. Among the wedding guests: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, a cousin of the bride's father...