Word: lena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glanced over the headlines," and imbibed the weather and theatrical reports. In despair, he gave me a subscription to TIME, which I read weekly with conscientious, but sincere, interest. Now at the dinner table I am voluble with the latest gossip- of the Prince of Wales, Henry Ford and Lena Stillman, and I look bored, but not blank, when the McNary-Haugen bill is mentioned. Last week I had just finished reading TIME from red cover to red cover, felt buoyantly well-informed. The doorbell rang, and there was the mailman with another edition of TIME. Oh dear! Yours, till...
...discussed a rumored maneuver by the Wilson family to make "a good thing" financially out of Lena's marriage: "I saw that soon enough and when I did I stopped it. There will be none of that. I know my people of the river too well...
...treated the reporters, and their myriad constituents, so much like intelligent beings that by and large the despatches from Grande Anse were quiet and sensible, with very little trash about the social "incongruity" between the bride and groom except where headline writers wrote: "WILDWOOD LENA," "DAUGHTER OF FOREST," "HUMBLE SCION...
People who compared the Tribune's performance with the attitudes of other newspapers were reminded of a remark once credited to Mrs. Lena Wilson Stillman, which seemed to summarize the entire event: "Nice people are nice the whole world over...
Married. James A Stillman Jr., 22, of Manhattan, son of James A. Stillman, onetime president of the national City Bank, Manhattan, to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, of La Tuque, Quebec; at his parents' summer home, Grande Anse, Quebec...