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...lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many a banker, she began speculating (successfully) for her clients. John P. Morgan's sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart...
Though her tale is tangled, the plot of the story is simple enough. Two girlhood friends. Marta and Pauline, not yet apparently fat but obviously fortyish, have for-gathered in Paris. Russ, an old pal, a U. S. businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love...
...Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When the daughter marries a nice...
While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...
With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...