Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There were seven Eisenhower brothers, sons of David (1863-1942) and Ida (1862-1946) Eisenhower: Arthur (1886-1958); Edgar, now 69; Dwight, 67; Roy (1892-1942); Paul (1894-95); Earl, 60; and Milton...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
...finds Louisa a soft-spoken girl with pudding-round cheeks and plain as rain. But her younger sister Ida is another matter-lithe, shrill, dark and electric. Roger kisses her on a dare, and shortly dares more. "What about Louisa? What are we going to do?" asks a momentarily sin-shocked Ida. "Do? Why, keep our mouths shut, I should think," answers Roger...
...East Riding folk refuse to do the same, and gossip begins to sputter. Roger and Ida resolve to stay out of each other's way, but it is a promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have...
...this point Novelist Nicholson keeps his story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make...