Word: zenobia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laureate Jimenez, 74, has lived in the Americas for two decades, but by birth, education and citizenship he is Spanish. Illness in his youth made him aloof and hypochondriacal. His cheerful and practical wife Zenobia looked after him maternally, ran a handicrafts shop in Madrid so that he could work at his poetry without having to worry about earning a living. Shortly after their marriage, he wrote a collection of lyrics entitled Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newlywed Poet), one of his finest works. That same productive year (1917) he published his most famous...
With Elaine, back in Italy, "the drums . . . rolled into one prolonged gigantic thunder." Perhaps partly to get away from all this racket, Pietro goes on the fifth Crusade, where he is captured by the Saracens and meets Zenobia. "To such a one, he thought . . . every thousand years the ribald gods give such a form in order to drive...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...