Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Every Woman Knows-Helen Hayes and Sir James Barrie define charm...
...past year, I recall with special satisfaction among other things your treatment of the Scope's Trial, your weekly resume of the complicated political situation in France, your account of the Ferguson campaign in Texas, the Frank (killer) Norris episode and your fictitious, but essentially truthlike and delightful Helen Wills' Diary...
...dinner hour at The Balsams, Dixville Notch, N. H. Ravenous tourists and contented residents were scooping vegetables out of their "bird's bath-tubs," calling for more butter and chattering happily all through the airy dining-hall. Back and forth between her table and the kitchen, plied Helen Albro Park of Brooklyn, whose summer as a waitress was drawing to a close. Soon she would be returning to Boston University to take up her junior-year courses. How good it would be to handle books again after stacks of trays and dishes...
...White Plains, N. Y., Florence Damm, 21; Helen Damm, 16; Margaret Agnes Damm, 15; Jeannette and Gertrude Damm (twins), 14, the famed Damm sisters of Yonkers, N. Y., begged and obtained permission from a county judge to change their surname, testifying that it brought them ridicule and embarrassment, retarding their social life. Mrs. Damm, their mother, was proved dead; Damm, their father, was "missing." After due deliberation the Damm sisters had elected to be-and were when they left court-Gormans, one and all, in honor of a favorite uncle...
...Forest Hills when Helen Wills announced her withdrawal, animation slipped away from the Woman's National; to make matters worse a pewter sky settled like a plate over the boggy courts. A glance at the draw made it seem likely that Mrs. Mallory would meet Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the finals and likely also that she would win. Against Miss Ryan, Mary K. Browne might make a bid, but Miss Browne was able to win only four games in two sets, and out came red Miss Ryan to battle brown Mrs. Mallory, just as expected. She soon went back...