Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mistakes are costly, and the bigger the maker, the bigger the cost. Last May, The Saturday Evening Post published an article by one Meade Minnigerode, a young Manhattan litterateur. It was titled Rachel Jackson?An Informal Biography. In it the story of the wife of Andrew Jackson was told in a chatty manner, a manner similar to that in which Mr. Minnigerode had previously retailed in the Post the faults and foibles and personal characteristics of other characters in U. S. history? Aaron Burr and others...
...taken serious offense at Mr. Minnigerode's chats about Burr and his friends, but when he came to delineating Rachel Jackson, the wife of a President of the U. S. and an idol of the state of Tennessee, he was guilty of lèse-majest?...
...Tennessee took offense. It said the article was scandalous and untrue. It rose to the defense of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. Patriotic societies met and passed resolutions denouncing Minnigerode. Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of that state called the article "cruel, inhuman and untrue ... a carefully prepared political attack on the Democratic party ... an attack upon the good name of an innocent woman now dead 97 years...
Whether it was in a fit of repentance or not, the Saturday Evening Post last week published a wandering, anecdotal, sentimental eulogy of Jackson and His Beloved Rachel by one John Trotwood Moore. The eulogy was spread over five pages...
There was Frederick Ballard, whose Believe Me, Xantippe! was produced in 1913 by William A. Brady, acted by John Barrymore. Cleves Kincaid wrote Common Clay, Jane Cowl's success in 1915. Mamma's Affair was the work of Rachel Barton Butler. Two years ago there was You and I, by Philip J. Q. Barry. Other craftsmen who learned their trade from Prof. Baker are Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Edward Knobloch, David Carb, Jules Eckert Goodman, Kenneth MacGowan (producer) and Lee Simonson (scenic director...