Word: girlhood
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Martha Ellen Young had seen the Federal "Redlegs" of the Civil War storm out of Kansas and slaughter her family's hogs. Her girlhood memories were of dances in the front parlor. "I was what you might call a light-foot Baptist...
Fighting Quaker. Where did this terror of the tycoons, this gorgon of gossip, spring from? Like most great legends, Hedda's girlhood, as she recalls it, is swirled in mist, lit by occasional flashes of fire. She was born Elda Furry, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (near Altoona), in 1890. Her father, a meat dealer descended from a long line of Quaker ministers, begot a long line of children (nine), of whom Elda...
...scandalous bang. A deposition filed before a New York surrogate by a Manhattan attorney named Raymond T. Armbruster told a startling story. Armbruster's story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted son, Harold Alfred Segur...
...Thomas is a prosperous Los Angeles cloak-&-suit merchant. He has never run for office or made a political speech, and never wants to. Until a few months ago, his closest brush with politics was a matter of geography; he was born next door to Bess Truman's girlhood home in Independence, Mo., 48 years...
Princess Elizabeth was undergoing alterations. The puffs and frills of girlhood were giving way to simpler, more sophisticated (and more slimming) styles; and Designer Norman Hartnell-still mama's dressmaker-was giving way to Molyneux, the very smart Duchess of Kent's stylist...