Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence, it had been a most enlightening year. Last week, pleased with his son's progress, the Emperor of Japan rehired Crown Prince Akihito's U.S. tutor for another year, at a raise in salary. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker lady from Philadelphia, had well earned her $2,000 and keep...
...best part of the Memoir is a critical account of the comfortable Quaker society of Wilmington, Del., where young Canby grew up at the end of the century. He describes this setting nostalgically-the leafy interpenetration of country and town, the sense of neighborhoods, the wide lawns, iron stags and idiosyncratic architecture. As for the way people lived, he says: "I believe that there were values in that period called the nineties and scandalously misdescribed in current films and novels, which were as worthy (greatness aside) as any cultural period has ever developed, and which are now lost, perhaps irrevocably...
Though less than half the campers are Quakers, all attend daily meetings for worship, and the entire community is drawn into the Sunday meeting. Like all Quaker meetings-for-worship, the liturgy-less silence may be broken by any worshiper who feels prompted by the "inner light" to. speak. Even the older, stalwart Lutheran Finns attend now; after coming for several weeks, they begin to speak, in their dry, taciturn way. Some of the campers are unhappy about this development; the totally silent meetings seemed the easiest answer to the 17 declensions of the Finnish language...
...into Altoona to see Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...