Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation into a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...
Much of the picture deals with the struggle behind the lines; the spirit of the womenfolk, slaves insurrections, and the war's repercussions on the home, Margaret Sulivan contributes her most outstanding, role in an outstanding, if relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connolly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sulivan. And over Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is worth seeing not only because it has fine actors...
Harman Blennerhassett was gifted with some talent for music and a flair for science; a contemporary notes that he had "all sorts of sense but commonsense." At 31, seven years after the Bastille's fall, he married his niece, the beauteous and witty Margaret Agnew whose father was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth...
...while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching a balloon (see cut), had been entered in the national contest by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville newshawks found Miss Graham, a teacher in the Lebanon High School, all warm and pink with excitement. Daughter of a well...
Separated. Margaret ("Margo") Couzens Chewning, Washington socialite, daughter of Michigan's rich Senator James Couzens; and William Jeffries Chewning Jr., Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. employe, with whom she eloped five years ago after obtaining a dispensation from Baltimore's Archbishop Michael J. Curley...