Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maria Guglielmi, sister of the late Rudolph Valentino: "My brother left an estate of more than $1,000,000 which will be divided equally between myself, my other brother, Alberto, who is now in Hollywood, and the aunt of Winifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, Mrs. Teresa Werner, who took such motherly care of Rudolph after Winifred had divorced him last year. Winifred (also known professionally as Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there...
...Adorable Liar. A delicate mechanism is the young girl of romantic hallucinations. Only a kindly sheriff and a sensitive audience can really understand. When she stirs a mob to a manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it takes all the sensible characters in the play to straighten out the situation. Suspense attains impressive proportions as bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than...
...President and his wife walked up to their old homestead, where they were warmly greeted by the housekeeper, Aunt Aurora Pierce. After a light supper at candlelight, they sat silently on the porch as the sun sank behind beloved Vermont hills. Now and again old-timers would stop in to pass the time of day, whereupon the President would rise, shake hands, sit again-rock-rock, rock-rock...
Because Governor Pinchot had requested investigation, he was the first to be examined. His wife and his aunt (Mrs. Charles B. Wood) were in the committee room when the Governor sank his tall, lean frame into the witness chair, turned a saddened eye on Senator Reed, recalled the expenditure of $43,000 of his own personal money on the campaign...
Then he said his wife had contributed $40,000, his aunt $50,000, a college friend $11,000, his brother Amos $11,000. The grand total might be $195,000. That equals the amount for which Mr. Newberry of Michigan was "severely condemned and disapproved" by a previous investigating committee. However, Mr. Pinchot's Pennsylvania has more than twice the population of Michigan, hence the per capita amount was less...