Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Joan Converse, child of a rich, unpleasant mother who went through life simmering in a tepid steam of easy admiration, and an ineffective father whom Mrs. Converse had discarded from her egocentric cosmos like a rejected peachpit, first met Jeffrey, she fell in love with him ?instanter and unwaveringly?in spite of the facts that he was a crazy undergraduate poet with a wild reputation and that his devotion to spoiled, lovely Inez Martin was well known. In fact, for a long, long time Joan didn't seem to have even half a chance...
...Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married, and for a month, at least, knew enchantment. Then?Squads Right About had been a success?...
...SACRIFICIAL GOAT ? Ernita Lascelles ? Boni ($2.00). Joan Candler, waitress in her mother's boarding house, had an exhausting time becoming Joan Chard, that promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part...
...surprising knowledge of European affairs. She described him as " a heavy man of 52, with a henna beard." She also reported that he was friendly to Spain, but that he believed " that if Morocco is ever conquered by the Spaniards it would be by their doctors and their hospitals." Joan Rosita Forbes (nee Torr), 30, married in 1911 Col. Ronald Forbes, whom she divorced in 1917. She has visited most of the far corners of the earth- China, Syria, the Sudan, Libya (disguised as a Bedouin woman), Eritrea. She has published several accounts of her travels, has written many articles...
Engaged. Allister McCormick, of Chicago, to Miss Joan Stevens, of London. He was engaged to Miss Mary Landon Baker, of Chicago, who left him at the altar...