Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks, Newton Arvin, Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Matthew Josephson, Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, George Soule, many another...
...LILLIAN F. BIDWELL...
Died. William Anthony McGuire, 53, prolific, publicity-shy Broadway playwright (Six Cylinder Love, Twelve Miles Out), scriptwriter for the late Florenz Ziegfeld (Rosalie, Smiles, Whoopee), cinemauthor (The Great Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, many an Eddie Cantor musicomedy) ; of a stroke; in Beverly Hills...
...Died. Lillian D. Wald, 73, famed founder of New York City's Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service; after a long illness; in Westport, Conn. Born of a well-to-do German-Jewish family, Nurse Wald spent most of her life in Manhattan's lower East Side, raised fabulous sums to improve its lot. A militant liberal, she supported women's suffrage, labor movements, pacifism during World War I, Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt...
...whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many a "yea" and "nay," makes and sells braided rugs. She is one of the orphans who stuck with the Shakers. When a visitor last week remarked on the variety of Shaker work...