Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calendar. Suggesting that Roosevelt planned a Hitlerized U. S., he accused the President of secretly planning work camps, waiting only for re-election to put them in force. Said Barton: "It will mean that your son and daughter at 18 will be lifted out of school or convent and put into a Government camp supervised by an impersonal and irreligious Government bureaucracy...
Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...
...could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, has an I. Q. of 185 (showing a mental age of 16). One of her two piano teachers is an assistant of Pianist Josef Hofmann. Able Conductor Antonia Brico drills Philippa in conducting, score reading...
Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
Betsy got most of her education in a New Jersey convent (she is not a Catholic), where she edited the school magazine. At 18 she got a job as assistant fashion editor of Charm, held it for seven years, later did promotion for children's clothes. Twice married, she is now the wife of Lawyer James Madison Blackwell, has a young son (James Madison IV) known as Judge...