Word: zenobia
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...claims of Ethan's sickly wife, become instead dependent on her attentions for the rest of their lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground. On stage, Ethan Frome is not quite so painful. The Davises have had some mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized...
...like water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines, which showed pumps leaning crazily on a steep hill. Secretary Alice McKee Gumming of the Iowa Art Guild damned this as a caricature. It was all most painful to Zenobia Ness, instructor in the home economics department of the State College at Ames and supervisor of the Fair's Art Salon. Tactfully taking no sides, she could not help admitting: "It certainly was a surprise...
...last the clubmates decided that this state of things was unbearable. They got every member to write something on a slip of paper, numbered the slips, sent them, with the letters, to a handwriting expert in Cleveland. He picked out the slip of Mrs. Zenobia Krapp, small, tidy wife of a dairy farmer and onetime president of Sorosis. So did experts in Chicago and New York. Quietly, to spare her feelings, the members called a meeting, suspended Mrs. Krapp from Sorosis...
...than Mrs. Krapp could stand. Flinging gentility to the winds, she filed suit for $10,000 against Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Roscoe, Mrs. English and the eight other Sorosis members, charging defamation of character. "I've been a good Christian and a good woman all my life," cried Mrs. Zenobia Krapp. "I never wrote those letters...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...