Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as Lupe Velez. She lived in a Spanish mansion, bathed in a jade-green tub, slept in a bed which was eight feet square, and was courted by many handsome men. She had been impatient with her good home in Mexico and with San Antonio's Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the color of her hair, she could never forget that she was really Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos. Last week this fact proved fatal...
Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Monsignor Knox retired from Oxford to a Shropshire convent (as chaplain) in 1939 to do his translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...
...Margaret O'Brien, pert, hazel-eyed, seven-year-old cinemoppet (Lost Angel, Journey for Margaret), vacationed in Mexico City, wanted to see the bullfights (her mother said she was too young), instead spent her time visiting churches, said that when she grew up she would enter a convent...
...Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week-see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco-is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama...