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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...
Here is the fruit of his labour, hold up thy Head, Tommy. Look you Gentlewoman, is he not as like, as if he was spit out of his mouth...
Across the Atlantic in Washington, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers up-rose in the House to demand fuller revenge for insulted U. S. womanhood than mere "emphatic comment," Minnesota's grizzled Harold Knutson, who voted against War in 1917, replied: "I wonder whether the gentlewoman from Massachusetts speaks from personal knowledge or from propaganda coming from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown...
...when Editor Nathaniel ("Nat") Burbank hired Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer to write a weekly women's article for the New Orleans Picayune, he gave her a definite idea of what he wanted. "We'll call this feature 'Sunday Salad,' " he told the brown-eyed young gentlewoman from Tennessee. "Make its base of fresh, crisp ideas. Over them pour a dressing mixed of oil of kindness, the vinegar of satire, the salt of wit, and a dash of the paprika of doing things." They also decided they would henceforth call Mrs. Gilmer, "Dorothy...
...feel," she once declared, "is a sort of violence." She says she cannot help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola...