Sentence:  Kind people apply all the milder words to your face; only Father ever called it ugly. "Ugly <WSD>Ivy</WSD> mingy as her name". Father himself was handsome and drunken. Mother had wanted <WSD>'Ivy</WSD>' "simple and yet pretty" and for once stuck to her guns. You wished she hadn't. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=English); popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century.