Word: nora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebel's Home. Frankie was the son and namesake of Francis X. Waldron. Around the turn of the century, Waldron Sr. left his home in New Jersey to try his fortunes in the West, tried prospecting in Alaska, drifted back to Seattle and in 1904 married Nora Vieg, daughter of a Minnesota farmer of Norwegian antecedents, at the First Methodist Church. Frankie was born the next year...
Quartet ends with The Colonel's Lady, an exhilarating snifter of Maugham's best vintage. It describes the troubles of a Blimpish colonel and his mousy, neglected wife whose little volume of passionate love poems suddenly becomes a nationwide bestseller. Cecil Parker and Nora Swinburne are just right in the leading roles, and the camera makes some telling, acidulous comments on club-chair Berties and Mayfair literati...
...Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Nora M. Wolven asked for an annulment, complained that her husband Charles had married her just to get an apartment. In Minneapolis, Mrs. Vivian Holweger divorced her husband Ernest, charging that he had married her to win two quarts of whiskey...
Success had been somewhat frightening to Novelist Joseph Stanley Pennell, whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...hands of most current novelists, the commonplace and slight story of Nora's indiscretion, Austin's kindly rejection of her advances, and the effects these events have on Austin's wife, pregnant with her second baby, would be something to read in a hammock and forget by dinnertime. Maxwell has made it something more...