Word: maud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THIS WAS MY NEWPORT-Maud Howe Elliott-The Mythology...
...died in 1910, at 91, without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic figure, a friend of Lafayette, a soldier in the wars for Greek and Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half a reminiscent guide to Newport, and altogether with. out a breath of scandal, malice, adventure or repining...
...Maud Montgomery, energetic mother of General Sir Bernard, took her first plane ride at 78-from Ireland to the Isle...
...Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those men she was transferred to Dieppe to await the 1941 exchange ship, the one that never came because at the last minute...
...Aunt Maud, a middle-class lady who, in letters, keeps her nephew in the army informed on Home Front conditions, particularly the feud between the Whist Club Committee and the Impoverished Gentlewoman's True Blue Conservative Associaation; Uncle Fred and the ironmonger-the local Home Guard unit is too small to hold them both; Aunt Maud's gardener, who persistently reads Karl Marx and who says "It is no use planting anything this spring as we shall have the revolution before the onions come...