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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jesuitry | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...Sarah and Joanna Palfrey: The girls' national indoor doubles championship, beating the husky Boehm twins, Hilda and Helen, of Maiden, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An English Tragedy | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...title, format, anonymity, style, story. Newly rich and resenting one of Husband Peter's infidelities, Patricia committed one herself, after drinking. Some time after she told him of it Peter threw her through a glass door and looking cold and hard went away with the virtuous Hilda. His reasons for making the break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Leaves Woman | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...capable work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra Mackay as Bianca, and Louise Piper as Hilda lift the play, but nothing like the way Ruth Bond Hill does, as Lona who spends the night before Anatol's nuptials to another chez Anatol...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

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