Word: nee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of this criticism cannot be fully appreciated without contrasting it with that of the nee-classics which preceded it. Its emphasis had been on the plots of the plays, on their mechanical form. Coleridge, building on the rebellion of a number of eighteenth century predecessors as well as on the revolutionary Germans, transferred that emphasis to character analysis and to the organic or innate form of the plays, which (again I quote Mr. Raysor) "are historically associated with the rising romantic movement, because of the romantic love of personal individuality." No more illuminating example of this method of treatment...
Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
...rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with his wife because she made him feel inferior and made up with her when he found he could stand on his own legs. Silliest shot: Claudette Colbert going blind after drinking some liquor intended for sportswriter consumption. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin) was born in Paris in 1905. Her French parents, after financial reverses, migrated to Manhattan when she was seven years old. She was studying painting when a friend gave her three lines to say in a play called The Wild Westcotts: "It was a lovely party. ... It must...
John Heard Jr. '33, H. R. Berrmann '33, W. McM. Heyl '33, J. L. Hutter Jr. '33, J. E. Larkin '32, A. L. Lowe '30, Peyton Murray '32, F. W. Nee '30, A. H. Parker '32, G. R. Ray '32, F. B. Rice '31, H. N. Roberts '30, John Russell '33, F. W. Stetson '31, DeWitt Stetten '30, Robert Tangeman '32, Meyer Texon '30, Charles Watson '30, E. E. Wendell '32, and Cyrus Wood...