Word: alva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmund Gros. head of the American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
...cotton planter named Murray Forbes Smith at Mobile, was born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...Alva Vanderbilt soon found that one's social stature was measured by the success of the balls one gave. Very well. She would give a ball. Furthermore, she would build the most impressive house in town to give the ball in. The house, an adaptation of the Chateau de Blois, cost $3,000,000. And no one in Manhattan since has given a party as impressive as the one which warmed her house on the night of March 27, 1883. Alva Vanderbilt received her guests in an elaborate renaissance costume, fetchingly set off by the photographer with white doves...
...Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons to a dinner at Manhattan's Metropolitan Club. Out of the repentant ashes of the N. E. L. A., founded at Chicago's Grand Pacific Hotel three years after Thomas Alva Edison opened his first central power station in Manhattan's Pearl Street, was formed the most autocratic trade association so far set up in the U. S. Name: Edison Electric Institute, "a permanent tribute to Thomas A. Edison . . . to foster the Edison tradition...
After out-Romanoffing the Romanoffs and frowning on every sort of bourgeois endeavor, Prince Mike, alias Harry Gerguson, has sold out on his numerous menage. Those who read with delight the spritely lines of Alva Johnson in The New Yorker, sketching the miraculous biography of this elegant phoney can hardly believe that Prince has gone the way of Channel swimmers and flag-pole sitters by accepting vaudeville contracts and writing his life story for the tabloids...