Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George returned, hurried and hatless, from Scotland to attend Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...
...Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, widow of onetime Ambassador to Mexico and U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, is small, dainty and a poet. Nevertheless, during the World War she organized the first U. S. women's (relief) unit to go to France. When her late husband ran for the Senate from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow...
More than that, Cleveland-born Elizabeth Morrow is a well-educated woman. She studied at the Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood...
...Says Yale's Professor Gordon S. Haight, who believes that De Forest's characters are unsurpassed in U. S. fiction: "It was an unfortunate moment to launch a realistic story of the war. At that time the bereaved were looking for comfort in such works as Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar; and those who still wished to read about battles wanted them tidied up for the drawing room." But another factor is at work in re-establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste...
Gimlet-eyed, grandmotherly, soft-drawling Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) is a Southern gentlewoman who as a child liked to ride, hunt, shoot and play with the pickaninnies. A half-demented old family retainer taught her to read: by twelve she knew Shakespeare, Scott and Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...