Word: ophelias
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...brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel after Sothern's death in 1933, emerged briefly on one public occasion to say to reporters...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...
Oilman Bill Simon and his wife Ophelia were delighted. Like a few other families in Gushing, Okla. (pop. 8,000), they had paid the passage of a D.P. couple, and taken them into their home to work. The Simons' couple, Jackin and Prowska Saij, worked hard as gardener & cook, and they never had to be told a second time how to use the automatic household gadgets. They knew only a few words of English, but the Simons had given the couple a radio to help them learn the language...
...tried to keep it, but after eight years I lost it. If you can't trust your own children you can't trust strangers. My hope is gone like the cattle that go over the hill and never come back." One night last week, Bill and Ophelia Simon began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin and Prowska became certain that the Simons were leaving to escape the secret police. Next morning, Prowska woke to find her husband gone. She stumbled into the garage and found his body, swinging from the rafters by the rope...
...mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Hallowe'en; Cecil Bill, a hysteric in a frightwig; Colonel Cracky ("from the Old South, suh"); Ophelia Ooglepuss and Clara...