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...HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening...
...Burr was admitted to the bar at Albany and six months later, then 26, he married Theodosia Barton Prevost. In spite of his attainments with the ladies, he married a woman, ten years his senior, the widow of a British officer who had died in the West Indies, the mother of five children, but she was one of the most accomplished women in America...
Mistress Burr. There was only one person Aaron Burr ever cared for. She was his daughter, Theodosia. When she was 9, he had her study Greek and Philosophy; at 14 she entertained, in his absence, 14 gentlemen of renown at a dinner for Thayenlanegeo, Chief of the Six Nations. She curled her lip when, in 1804, the riff-raff of Manhattan sang...
Parrott, Edsall, MacLeish, Simpson, Buhner, McCormick are coming home. The Navy Department announced it. For two long years they have been wanderers overseas. Destroyer Division 39 sailed into strange ports- Odessa, Theodosia, Novorossiisk, Samsun and Smyrna-helping the American Relief in Russia, carrying refugees from the smoking ruins of Turco-Grecian war. Their keels have not left the water, their crews have not left their posts. But like Odysseus, at last they shall come home...
Married. William Pierson Hamilton, 54, of Manhattan, retired member of J. P. Morgan and Co., executor of the will of the late Mr. Morgan, to Mrs. Theodosia S. Carlin, of Montecito, Calif., at Montecito. Simultaneously it became known that Mr. Hamilton and his first wife, Juliet P. Morgan, daughter of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, had been divorced in December by decree of the Nevada State Courts...