Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undefeated as yet, the Harvard freshman hockey team will meet St. Paul's at Concord. New Hampshire Wednesday at 2.45 o'clock. St. Paul's has lost to the Princeton Freshman and Yale Freshman teams; Harvard has defeated Belmont Hill, Belmont High, Exeter. Arlington High, Newton High, and the Junior Varsity...
Such a man is proud old Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., Newport (where he bought the Marble House of the late Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont), and Pau and Paris, France. Returning to the U. S. last week from Europe, Frederick Henry Prince delivered himself of a dictum to which many a lesser U. S. businessman doubtless subscribed with admiration and respect...
...attended the San Francisco convention of the National Woman's Party. She went abroad to see Christabel Pankhurst, who would gladly break an umbrella over a constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt...
Most publicized of her quarrels was with Bishop Manning. Because she had been divorced and remarried 30 years before, in 1926 he suddenly asked her to resign from the board of the Home for Children which she had endowed. To this Mrs. Belmont had not only her usual last word, but two last words. A cable from her grandson, the Marquess of Blandford, asked her to stand with George V at the christening of her great-grandson. "Bishop Manning repudiates me and accepts my gift," said she. "But the Archbishop of Canterbury permits me to stand with his monarch...
Last week plans were made to bury Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery. She will be interred beside her second husband* in the celebrated Belmont chapel, modeled after that of the Chateau at Amboise. She built that...