Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News) intervening (see cut). All this being off the record...
Normally a courageous feminist, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is accustomed to name annually "The Ten Women of the Year." This week she not only did not name Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as one of her ten women of 1936 but emphasized her attitude by announcing that she is not going to name any more women of the years. In past years Mrs. Catt has named such women as Mrs. Lindbergh, Miss Perkins, Miss Earhart, with President Roosevelt's wife heading the list year after year...
...entire history of Great Britain there has been only one voluntary royal abdication and it came about in 1936 solely because of one woman, Mrs. Simpson. In 1935 she was quite as intimate with Edward as she was later but he was then only Prince of Wales, and there was no reason to think she was not going to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson, just as in the days of King Edward VII his female intimates generally had husbands and stayed at Buckingham Palace ostensibly on the invitation of Queen Alexandra as "her friends." Two years ago Mrs. Simpson...
Edward of Wales had had many another friend on the same terms, and Mrs. Simpson was an ordinary divorcee of the international set, definitely not rich and seldom or never mentioned in society columns. In the single year 1936 she became the most-talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world. In these respects no woman in history has ever equaled Mrs. Simpson, for no press or radio existed to spread the world news they made...
...England the news that the King, as King, wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson was the final culmination of a tide of events sweeping the United Kingdom out of its cozy past and into a more or less hectic and "American" future. Against this trend the spirit of John Bull resolutely set himself, and the flesh was that of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry...