Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of the five royal courts of the season, and first that rheumatic George V was well enough to attend, occurred last week at Buckingham Palace. Of all the debutantes to make their curtseys, the most triumphant was Margaret Henriette McReynolds of Tennessee, daughter of U. S. Conference Delegate Sam McReynolds. Because it is obviously impossible to receive all the ladies attached to all the delegations the Lord Chamberlain's office announced that none of the ladies of the World Economic Conference would be presented. But Miss McReynolds had already received her "command" to attend. She had bought...
...Margaret Storm Jameson belongs to a hard-hit generation (she calls it "the Class of 1914") and she comes from hard-bitten Yorkshire. The combination, as readers of her novels will recognize, is not one that makes for softness or cares about charm. Good if somewhat angrily honest, her stories are apt to be bitter to palates accustomed to a sugaring of the pill. In No Time Like the Present, half autobiography and half indictment of a civilization that returns to war like a dog to its vomit, there is less sugaring than ever, more anger than usual...
...Poet Margaret Widdemer (Old Road to Paradise, All the King's Horses...
Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Philadelphia sportsman-socialite, divorced husband of Mary L. Duke, tobacco heiress; and Margaret Hickman Schulze Biddle, daughter of the late Mining Tycoon William Boyce Thompson: a son; in Paris. Weight...
...ministry, but at twelve he left home (Kewaskum, Wis.) for the more spacious academic atmosphere of West Bend and Waukesha, went on to the University of Chicago, where he headed the Poetry Club and took his literary vows. When he started writing reviews for Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, Margaret Anderson mistook him for an Englishman. Wescott explained that "he loved the English language and had trained himself to speak it beautifully...