Word: sophronia
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...side, plain East European on her father's) and her looks (no blond curls or rosebud mouth), Hellman felt she "didn't get anything of what I wanted." She began lying as soon as she could tell a story. One of the first concerned a black woman named Sophronia, who worked for the family briefly during Hellman's babyhood, but was transformed into the main nurturing figure of her life. Later, says Mellen, "an enlarged photograph of Sophronia holding a tiny, impish Lillian was to adorn the drawing rooms of Hellman's mature life...
...Fifth Avenue mansion which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia and to bear Brent a child. Says Sister Fitzgerald when this truth comes out: "Oh, my darling spinster, how you've been...
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