Word: kate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife...
...Pearson Wells of Detroit is no daughter but a step-daughter of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Se was before her marriage Miss Helen C. Pillsbury, daughter of Mrs. Kate S. Pillsbury, of Milwaukee (both second cousin and second wife of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis). Mrs. Edward W. Bok is the only daughter, only child of Publisher Curtis.-ED. Artist Praised...
...elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight of eighteenth-century villagers dashing round the Mulberry Bush portrayed by the happy fingers of G. Cox; and Red Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous wolf standing on the door-step, touched with an eerie...
...evident succession of the years, At scattered intervals during these years, the author drops in upon her creatures and describes, always behind the veil of colloquial speech, the effect of their crises upon their emotional natues. And at the and, one must award the palm as heroine to Kate Green by virtue of longest and most substantial portrayal at the hands of the authoress...
...story of Kate Green and her son Joe and all their relatives and neighbors in Westlake, New England, is another story of the tragically commonplace and, its eternal power of keeping on. Sister Anne is a little cheerier than Brother Dillwyn. She lets at least one character, life-loving Evelyn, young Joe's wife, escape back to New York and Paris whence she came. She even lets her have Hope, her daughter (the small hope of Westlake), and puts all the agony on Joe's shoulders, which broaden by bearing it alone. But Kate, from...