Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a meeting of the lacrosse team, held immediately after the close of the Yale game, Merrill Winslow Linn '27, of Lewisburg, Pa., was elected captain of the team for next year. At the same time, Madison Sayles '27 of Belmont, was awarded the smaller of the Morgan Lacrosse Cups, and won the right to have his name engraved on the other...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing...
...Bishops, Mrs. Belmont has found, are not so tolerant as he of Canterbury. Last week she addressed a letter to Bishop William T. Manning of New York, from whom she had received, indirectly, an invitation to give money to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She begged Bishop Manning to allow her to remind him that only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont...
...preparing the music for the convention of Associated Harvard Clubs of the World, which is to be held in Chicago next month, the Graduate Committee on Music announced yesterday, through its Chairman, J. H. S. Moynahan '23 of Belmont, that it would appreciate in this work the cooperation of the students of the University. The Committee wishes to have not only the conventional Harvard songs, but also original compositions which undergraduates may care to submit...
...foreign invasion. Charlotte used to countenance these educational amusement enterprises which yearly came to relieve Charlotte of her stock of money. The selectmen arose finally in righteous indignation. Charlotte now has a race track and keeps the money in the town. The races are not your rustic anti-Belmont flascos either. With a whip and a blanket for reward and the town on deck to stand by the local steeds, races are keen and the time--enjoyed...