Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment will replace the late Mrs. Brewer Blackall '12 as national fund chairman in the last three months of the drive, assistant chairman Patricia White '47, announced yesterday. The fund executive board will coordinate its own specific activities. Miss White has been made assistant to the 12 member board...
...Mrs. Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...
...Novelist Elizabeth Taylor skips ahead of the reader to state-and quickly puncture with mockery-the best justification for her novels. A Wreath of Roses is her fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
Stranger-Trouble. Novelist Taylor comes a cropper in dealing with the handsome stranger-a psychotic who is a good deal more dangerous than Camilla at first suspects. Mrs. Taylor suggests facets of his character, all neatly and plausibly, but no individual emerges. At the climax of the story Camilla is filled with understandable terror at learning that her new friend is a murderer. The motives and behavior of the young man at this point are, however, by no means made credible to the reader. The novel ends rather helplessly with his suicide...
...Better or Worse. In Chicago, Mrs. Adeline C. Bryzek agreed to a reconciliation with her husband after he had promised to 1) wear a wedding ring at all times, 2) stop lending money to his relatives, 3) take her along whenever he goes fishing...