Word: lena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lena carries no lipstick. Lena has not read much. But she is healthy and capable. She has the humor and hardihood of people to whom pleasure and pain are natural phenomena, not nervous problems. The young man is going to be a doctor, not a banker or poet, so after his junior year at Princeton he asks Lena Wilson and she accepts...
...whose character is definite almost to the point of eccentricity, receive her cook's daughter as her son's wife? Perhaps the fact that the son's firmness matches the mother's is responsible for her approval. Perhaps she is simply a realist. In any case, she takes Lena Wilson to Manhattan with her for a winter of theatres, shopping and "polish" in general. Lena goes to the Princeton commencement and then the scene is set for a wedding at Grande Anse...
...There was a double divorce action which began in 1922 and was not settled until 1924. That died down peacefully. Banker James A. Stillman and his gypsyesque wife are dignified friends though they live apart mostly. But they will be seen together at the wedding of their son and Lena Wilson. Having decided it is a possible thing, they will put the wedding through in the best of style, a thoroughbred affair. Will newspaper editors send representatives to cover such an affair? Certainly yes; as surely as a hungry trout will rise to a bright...
...might have seemed silly to Lena Wilson and James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., but for days before their wedding took place last week, newspaperdom was on hand at Grande Anse with questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null...
...come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into a "sylvan bower" for a pageant to include kilted bagpipers, ushers in lumbering shirts, and wines by the truckload, talked with frankness and concentration to the reporters. She discussed the Indian blood in Lena Wilson. "What of it?" she said. "There are good Indians. Bearing in one's veins a strain of the blood of the natives of this gorgeous country is certainly nothing to deny or explain...