Word: warder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Eve, 1908, Alice Warder, socially registered in Washington, was taken to wife by John Work Garrett, Baltimore scion. Last week, as she was cruising through the Adriatic with a bald-browed, black-bearded man with a limp, things happened in Washington which made her the spouse of the next U. S. Ambassador to Italy...
Fortunate indeed would any diplomat be to have her for a wife. But residence in Rome as the wife of a U. S. Ambassador implied no domestic upheaval for Alice Warder Garrett. It was her husband, John Work Garrett, with whom she was last week cruising about Italy, that President Hoover had picked for this prime foreign post. President Hoover prepared to congratulate himself on filling another major post with a man of quality...
RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
...some circumstances, habitually dive for a fight when he could be assured of modest winnings by gentler means? Mrs. Blair believes that explanations begin at home; that the housewife has long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates that competition where it is found lacking. This is equivalent to warning feminists that they too will acquire the fight complex, if indeed they have not got with some quarters already. But the impression also remains that Mrs. Blair has shown...