Word: alma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, in its issue of July 11, carried a review of Alma, Margaret Fuller's recent novel. This review referred to Miss Fuller as "once the secretary, now the wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman." You telegraphed us on July 1 asking for confirmation of this statement, but because of the holidays your telegram did not reach us until July 5. We wired you immediately that Miss Fuller has never been married and that Mr. Stedman has been dead for years. Miss Fuller was Mr. Stedman's secretary and was with him all the last years preceding his death...
...ALMA-Margaret Fuller-Morrow ($2). Here is a character less rare in life than in literature, an oversexed angel set down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
...Alma's need to love is expansive enough to embrace the whole "Free Country" (U. S. A.) of her adoption, and articulate enough to smother with its excess every possible husband. It is a need of such unusual and innocent intensity that Alma's story, much of it in broken English, hovers constantly between the exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections...
...that of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He and his father have given more than a half billion dollars to general education, disease prevention and like social factors. They make no stint of their giving. Yet the younger John D. Rockefeller, at the 153rd commencement exercises of Brown University, his alma mater, last week forced himself to declare that the time is close when wealthy men will find themselves unable to keep up with the demands of education institutions for gifts...
...Heart of Salome (Alma Rubens). How was dapper Monte Carrol, U. S. hero touring France, to realize that the entrancing Helene was not the sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian...