Word: astor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Lady Astor about Lord Astor at a Temperance Convention in London: "My husband is a modest fellow; you have no idea what he has sacrificed for the temperance movement. If ever he had any political career, he sacrificed it whe,n he took up the cause of temperance." Said Lord Astor about Lady Astor: "Since my wife has taken part in public life I have had occasion to change my politics and outlook, but every time this is necessary I find that my politics and outlook end on a higher plane...
Married. Robert Gould Shaw, II, son of Lady Astor's first husband, and Miss Hilda Burt, actress; in Carthage...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?Mr. and Mrs. William K. Dick (wife of the late John Jacob Astor) and sons, John Jacob Astor, William K. Dick, J. H. Dick; Jesse L. Lasky, taking a script of the film version of Peter Pan to show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...
...good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted thousands of voices, but one by one the horses returned behind the barrier; Jockey Donoghue's mount, Defiance, had "broken." The second "They're off!" proved correct. Lord Astor's St. Germans and Lord Derby's Sansovino led with Hurstwood, Bright Night and Tom Pinch. Down the spongy, muddy track squelched the horses, the pouring rain dashing into their faces. Little by little Sansovino and St. Germans drew away from the rest. When the field plodded around...
...finally declared sane in New York State, dedicated himself and his $112,000 a year income (he is descended from John Jacob Astor) to a crusade against what he calls the "lunacy trust...