Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Morgan, busy, greying sister of J. P., held a reunion in Manhattan with cronies Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times correspondent) and Playwright Rachel Crothers. Occasion: a testimonial dinner celebrating Miss Morgan's 30-year effort to better the lot of business and professional women...
Most epileptics who are in institutions are of below normal intelligence. But many of those who are out in the world, according to Dr. Erickson's wife. Psychologist Mary Rachel Harrower-Erickson, are brilliant, ambitious, successful. The old notion of an "epileptic personality," distinguished by lying, cheating, selfishness, cruelty, is false. If their brain damage is not too severe, epileptics are just like other people...
...consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
...mind of an insurance agent."* He turned his attack on David Dubinsky, who took his garment workers out of C. I. 0. and back to A. F. of L., and demanded: "Where, oh where is Dubinsky today? . . . He is crying out now and his voice laments like that of Rachel in the wilderness, against the racketeers and the panderers and the crooks in that organization. . . . And now above all the clamor comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. And they say, 'Peace, it is wonderful.' " He invited them and their president to follow...
...Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after the thrilling unsolved murder of the Duchess, presumably by the Duke...