Word: astor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this week both from the Religion and the International departments an event of great significance in the religious world, viz., the visit to this country of the British Congregationalists on their twentieth century good will Pilgrimage. Could you have been privileged to sit at the banquet in the Hotel Astor the night of Friday June 15 and listen to the thrilling addresses so expressive of British-American fellowship and peace made by men like Fred B. Smith, S. Parkes Cadman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Charles E. Burton and Clarence Hall Wilson (Americans) and Alfred G. Sleep. Sir. Murray Hyslop and John...
...present as a special sort of Tammany delegate, left nothing to chance, however, and made a statement to the press. It was after a visit paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman Joneses'. Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That's a great little lady. She has perfect poise, gentleness, kindliness of heart, all the really fine qualities which we women want in the White House...
...everyone knows, the beauty of the Langhorne sisters long was the pride of Virginia, the joy of the nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...
...Tweed's heyday, which Grand Sachem Voorhis well remembers, leading citizens of New York were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed...
Married. Colonel George T. Langhorne, U. S. A., veteran of the Spanish War and onetime assistant to the late Major General Leonard Wood; to Miss Mary K. Waller, of Chicago; at Cliveden, England, the home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, cousin of Colonel Langhorne...