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...Rumanian version of Helen, Helena, Helene, Eleanor, Nellie, Ellen...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...
...fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work during this rowing period, besides superintending the construction of Appleton Chapel and a house of his own, which he occupied next fall on his marriage to Miss Ellen Derby Peabody...
...green, hoods of orange, purple, blue, set off by touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke), and Ellen F. Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D. (N. Y. U., Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Glasgow), who was there to be inaugurated as President. Whence came he to this post of eminence and ecclesiastical danger...
Married. Edgar Lee Masters, 57, author of Spoon River Anthology and more recently of prose; to Ellen F. Coyne, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Manhattan. It was the groom's second marriage, his first wife, Helen Jenkins Masters, of Chicago, having divorced...