Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILLIAM-E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). When crises arise, strange discrepancies of outlook are often uncovered among intimates. So finds William Nesbitt when his daughter Lydia frankly exchanges a lawfully wed Oliver for a Henry. Of all the family, only William himself and plump, generous Dora fully sympathize...
Court Ladies--Lydia Edwards, Rosalind Kelsey, Fay Goell, Marion Langley...
...spits tobacco to the delight of Manhattan street-cleaners thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist...
Under the title of EDUCATION and the subtitle of "Vegetable" a rather lengthy discourse on Lydia Pinkham and her Compound is presented by TIME for Sept. 20 [p. 20]. I fail to gather the connection to Education and as to the Vegetable, I refer you to the series of articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Collier's under the title of "The Great American Fraud." Also to the booklet entitled "Female Weakness Cures" as published by The American Medical Assn...
...What caused Lydia E. Pinkham to sell a compound...