Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route from the plains of Texas to a battlefield in France, Private Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart) is stationed at Camp Merritt, near New York City. One evening he collides with a limousine containing glamorous Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). Unaware of the nature of her attachment to her manager (Walter Pidgeon), Private Pettigrew falls in love. Aware of the effect of a rude disillusionment, Daisy makes a brave gesture that enables Private Pettigrew to sail for France with his sublimated devotion unimpaired...
Three Comrades (Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young; TIME, June...
...That Margaret Countess of Holland bore 365 children at once 600 years ago no one believes. No incontestable records of the phenomenon exist. Even Canada's honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying quadruplets...
FANNY KEMBLE: A PASSIONATE VICTORIAN - Margaret Armstrong - Macmillan...
Latest addition to the growing evidence of bootleg Victorian unconventionally is Margaret Armstrong's story of Fanny Kemble, to whom Novelist Henry James, her close friend, paid this tribute: "She was one of the rarest of women. . . . She reanimated the old drawing-rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos. . . . An extraordinary mixture of incongruous things, of England and France in her blood, of America and England in her relationships, of the footlights and the glaciers in her activities, of conformity and contumacy in her character and tragedy and comedy in her talk...