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...have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well as foodstuffs, and Russia is so poor. Then I want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children, and study, the best American systems." Mme. Kalinin is expected to sail shortly. She, like her husband, is a simple peasant. A woman of about 35 years of age, she is the mother of three children and the foster mother of two famine orphans...
...sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable that Leda should find in the imaginative nobility of Barnaby a possible release. And it was equally inevitable that Barnaby should find in the clear glass of Leda's sensitive beauty...
...wife, the little lady develops one unfortunate propensity. She insists on being his leading lady. In rehearsal she seems all right. On the opening night she thinks she is all right. So that when her husband conscientiously explains to her that she not only was not good, but was absurd, her pride suffers a fall. Her comeback, however, is immediate. She gives him a devil and deep-sea to choose between. Either she continues to act or she leaves...
Lady Carnarvon: "When I learned that my husband was ill with blood-poisoning in Luxor, I immediately hired an airplane and a blood specialist and set out upon the 2,700 mile trip to Egypt...
...Morgan Robertson, widow of the author: "I established a fund out of the royalties of my husband's books to take care of writers who go on the rocks...