Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...networks this week was a rare storyteller with a novelty: Lydia Perera's Story to Order (NBC, Sun., 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T...
...LYDIA L. BREUNIG...
...Princess Lydia Pasto Hotchkiss Cucurbitaceo-the department store, you know. And the Countess Vitetti-the former Natalie Coe of Long Island and South Carolina. And the Countess Roberti-old Ogden H. Hammond's daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom. She also stamps out any intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they...