Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...Katherine Winthrop of Boston and Foxcroft School: the girls' national indoor tennis tournament in Brookline, Mass., beating Hilda Boehm, top-seeded star, 6-3, 6-3 in the finals...
...Hilda Harlan, very rich, very comely, very sure of herself, always got what she wanted but thought God's will was hers. She had been made pious at an early age and never got over it. When she married Cope Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in; soon it was Cope who was giving in. Cope was an agnostic; his skepticism quickly ran foul of Hilda's belief in her divine rightness. Their first serious quarrel arose over the baptism of their infant daughter; Cope refused to admit she was "conceived...
...Sarah and Joanna Palfrey: The girls' national indoor doubles championship, beating the husky Boehm twins, Hilda and Helen, of Maiden, Mass...