Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jumbo died in 1910, and the golden age of heiresses and coronets went with him. The same year, Mary Pickford became America's sweetheart. As Author Eliot sees it, the events were symbolically linked. The age of society, such as it was, had ended, and the U.S. entered the...
While virtually all of these matches were made on a balance sheet, a few ended with mutual love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but...
Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan'...
Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on...
From that time on, in his pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed...