Word: villard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dangerous Angel, Kelland's No. 39, the tamee is one Anneke Villard, a girl with a shrewd business sense who hits San Francisco in the closing years of the Gold Rush era, and swiftly parlays a $20,000 inheritance into something nearing a cool million. Unwittingly, she also falls in love with a handsome Telegraph Hill aristocrat named Juan Parnell, although she fights against it. They make up their lovers' quarrel just in time to outwit two murderous swindlers who have suckered San Francisco financial circles in a colossal confidence game...
...going down to the sea in yachts ever since he was a boy in Charleston, S.C. In 1908, after working up to be assistant paymaster on the New York Central Railroad, Stone changed his course abruptly. At 36, he took the helm of Yachting, which his friend Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, had started the year before. Editor Stone decided to make Yachting more popular by doing the same for yachting: he gave a big boost to ocean racing, revived the famed Bermuda Race...
...Idiots Can Vote." Herself a mother (of two) and grandmother (of one), Mrs. Littledale earned her blue pencil by starting as a cub reporter. Fresh from Smith College, she went to work on Oswald Garrison Villard's old New York Evening Post, and became its woman's-suffrage editor: "It was wonderful, just what I wanted to do." It was so wonderful that she became the suffragettes' pressagent, once paraded down Fifth Avenue with a sign which said "Insane and Idiots Can Vote. Why Can't I?" Later she joined Good Housekeeping, became its World...
...different standards of morality in judging the U.S.S.R. and our country, so it applies two different standards of journalism. Its own irresponsible attacks on genuine liberals is legitimate criticism, but a reasoned objection to its Soviet apologetics is "libel." What a comedown from the days of Godkin and Villard...