Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard I expected to find a certain dignified aloofness, as different from Oklahoma's "howdy-ness" as is a Boston debutante from an Osage maiden...
...January 1918, Graves married Nancy Nicholson, daughter of Painter William Nicholson. The wedding-cake icing was of plaster, on account of the shortage of sugar. The War over, Captain Graves and his wife (who still called herself by her maiden name) lived first at Harlech; then on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, where they tried the disastrous experiment of keeping a shop; then at Islip, a village the other side of Oxford. Four children were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry...