Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
...breed Indians. He grows up a strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter of his mother's north-woods cook...
...healthy and capable. She has the humor and hardihood of people to whom pleasure and pain are natural phenomena, not nervous problems. The young man is going to be a doctor, not a banker or poet, so after his junior year at Princeton he asks Lena Wilson and she accepts...
...whose character is definite almost to the point of eccentricity, receive her cook's daughter as her son's wife? Perhaps the fact that the son's firmness matches the mother's is responsible for her approval. Perhaps she is simply a realist. In any case, she takes Lena Wilson to Manhattan with her for a winter of theatres, shopping and "polish" in general. Lena goes to the Princeton commencement and then the scene is set for a wedding at Grande Anse...
...double divorce action which began in 1922 and was not settled until 1924. That died down peacefully. Banker James A. Stillman and his gypsyesque wife are dignified friends though they live apart mostly. But they will be seen together at the wedding of their son and Lena Wilson. Having decided it is a possible thing, they will put the wedding through in the best of style, a thoroughbred affair. Will newspaper editors send representatives to cover such an affair? Certainly yes; as surely as a hungry trout will rise to a bright...