Word: jill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most elaborately constructed were legalistic financial advertisements (Par Value of James Whitney Goit was stated to be $1,000,000), a merchandise receipt (rendered on the New York Stork Exchange for Jill Susan Kahn), and announcements of literary, theatrical or musical productions (Jean Charlotte Steel, "world's greatest eight and three quarters pound coloratura" promising "continuous performance...
...surely the ephemeralities of the little book will serve this Cause. The mystory of Jack and Jill and their resultant lack of equilibrium after a visit to the still on the hill, Humpty Dumpty's sin and the terrible retribution, which could not be altered by all the King's horses and all the King's men, may be directly attributable to a lurking fondness for the cups. The Children's Guardians of Verses may even go further. Under the scrutinizing eyes of these realists, Contrary Mary's garden of silver bells and cockle-shells will probably be exposed...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, honeymooning in Upperville, Va., with his bride of a fortnight (former Mary Elizabeth Altemus of Philadelphia), wanted to see his Airedale bitch Jill, sent to Manhasset, L. I. for her. Jill was driven to Roosevelt Field in her master's Rolls-Royce, flown to Virginia in her master's Sikorsky...
...faintly satirical observer, in Turn Back the Leaves she has written a tragedy of frustration too deep for satire. During the War, Author Delafield did Red Cross work, wrote her first novel in her spare time. She lives in Devonshire. Other books: Mrs. Harter, The Chip and the Block, Jill, The Way Things Are, First Love...