Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan socialite (formerly Eleanor Robson, actress): to be first woman board-member of Metropolitan Opera...
...Groton crew, stroked and captained by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.: a race against Belmont Hill School by 2½ lengths, in 5 min. 25 sec., fastest time for a mile made by any Groton crew in ten years; at Groton, Mass. Capt. Roosevelt's mother was in the launch that followed the race, with her son John (assistant manager of the 1932 Groton football team) and a distant cousin Cornelius Roosevelt, who manages the crew...
...undefeated 1936 golf team will face Tabor Academy this afternoon for their fourth match of the season at Belmont Hill Country Club at 2.30 o'clock. The Jayvee golfers will play Tufts tomorrow at Belmont at 2.30 o'clock...
Ever since Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont left it in 1917 to build a medieval castle at Sands Point (now inhabited by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst), and later to go abroad and die, her old estate near Hempstead, L. I. has been on the downgrade. It was sold to Cold Stream Corp., which converted part of it into a golf club not too choosey about its membership. Last week a plaintiff with a debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County...
...housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily...