Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unrivaled by Father John or the Smith Brothers, Lydia Pinkham was for years the most vivid personality in the U. S. medicine chest. Lydia Estes Pinkham died in Lynn, Mass, in 1883. Her prim pictures, however, remained on every package of tier famed Vegetable Compound, and clerks went on answering in her name 100,000 letters per year from women who thought the compound relieved their periodic ills. When the late Edward W. Bok started his crusade against patent medicines, he debunked the post-mortem Pinkham correspondence by publishing in his Ladies' Home Journal a picture of Mrs. Pinkham...
...Lydia, who elopes with Captain Denny; Jane (Helen Chandler), who goes into a decline when pretty Charles Bingley temporarily deserts her; and Elizabeth (Adrianne Allen), whose sharp tongue and unfashionably candid ways finally ensnare the rich and haughty Darcy (Colin Keith-Johnston). Actress Chandler, the blonde and tremulous wife of Actor Bramwell Fletcher, and Actress Allen, the brown-haired, vivacious mate of Actor Raymond Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow...
...grim tradition of European espionage, "Master Spy" Mme Lydia Stahl, 45, had kept her mouth shut during 16 months in jail and the three weeks of the trial. Last week she sobbed but said nothing when she got five years, almost escaped press notice...
...supporting cast is competent. Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood are both convincing as the child's parents. The plot is that of the American child "Wednesday's Child." Do not let this discourage you, however. It is not necessary to be in the proper emotional pitch to enjoy this film. The simple sincerity creates the proper emotional pitch. And whether or not the morbidity of the plot is uninteresting to you, the brilliance of the star, the grace, the charm with which this little girl lives her simple London existence will fill you with the greatest admiration...
North Dakota. Vindication was the issue?vindication of deposed Governor William Langer (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Lydia Cady Langer ran in her husband's place against Democrat Thomas Moodie. But North Dakota's farmers, for all their past devotion to William Langer, cast their ballots firmly against his wife, chose as their next Democratic Governor the onetime railroad brakeman who today edits the Williston Herald...