Word: ida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drama that his influence was felt outside Italy. His Italian was written in a flamboyant, often baroque, style, lush with passionate simile. He was in fact a Casanova, yearned to be a Napoleon. He carried on world famed affairs with Actresses Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt, Dancers Ida Rubinstein and Isadora Duncan, other Edwardian beauties. In 1909 his brutally frank description of his intimacies with Duse sent her into a twelve-year retirement. During this period he had also married an Italian, Donna Maria Hardouin, who soon after left him for Paris...
...widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
...belief of the Paris press and police, 22-year-old Jean De Koven was neither a night-club dancer nor a chorus girl, but a student of ballet whose only professional appearance was as a child dancer with a road company of The Miracle. With her aunt, Miss Ida Sackheim of Brooklyn, she arrived in Paris on July 19. A few days later Jean De Koven was picked up in the lobby of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs by a young man known only as "Bobby," who spoke English with a strong German accent. Jean De Koven made a date with...
Birthday. Ida Minerva Tarbell, last of the original "muckrakers," who made her name by her book, History of the Standard Oil Co. (1904); her 80th; in Manhattan. Last week Miss Tarbell, who has three books in progress, said, "I can't stop. I don't come under Social Security...
...been draped. In fact it is only the indefatigable Jack Benny who keeps the show from being a rather inconsequential hodge-podge. In their efforts to please everyone, the producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers" who pretty nearly steal the show with their performance in a sequence of "Whispers in the Dark...