Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Separated. George Gaylord Simpson, of the American Museum of Natural History's field staff, onetime Yale professor; and Mrs. Lydia P. Simpson. Her charge: He carried on correspondences with young women in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., he had met on fossil hunts. Countercharge: She made scenes in the Museum of Natural History...
Sued for Separation, Roark Bradford, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which Marc Connolly wrote The Green Pastures; by Mrs. Lydia Sehorn Bradford; in New Orleans. Charge: abandonment. Mrs. Bradford lies abed with tuberculosis in Arizona...
...full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called electrum. Why not, urged the rememberers of this fact, create an "Electrum Standard?" Instead of pegging silver legally to gold...
...hard did the Pinkham family work to make the Compound a success that two sons predeceased their mother (Dan at 33, Will at 28). Lydia died at 64 but the Vegetable Compound went marching...
Biographer Washburn hazards no opinion about Lydia Pinkham's belief in her own invention, thinks her opportunism may have been socially useful. "The overwrought key of the advertising, its appeal to beware of vague symptoms, such as the blues and dissatisfaction with life, and the hysterical note of the testimonials, suggest that the Vegetable Compound cured that additional weakness that was largely psychic. Who is to say it may not have done this job as well as psychoanalysis...