Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fashion of flowered shirts for men by selling his own right off his back to an Argentine millionaire for $2,000-made him several fortunes. His careless gallantry in the drawing room earned him the undying affection of many, including his first wife, Standard Oil Heiress Beatrice ("Bea") Benjamin, who, even after she divorced him in 1942, refused to revoke a trust fund she had settled on Freddy...
...Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards made by Paul Revere, an 18th Century Philadelphia highboy for which Du Pont paid a reported $44,000, and paintings by John Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West...
...higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
These paintings have ben loaned to Fogg from six museums and several private collections. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts, said that "this is the last collection of the sort in the United States...
Harvard officials, however, were from the first quite friendly toward the pathetic school to the South. Benjamin Colman 1692, despite the fact that he was dead set against Yale's Calvinism, opposed Harvard's admitting any Connecticut students so as not to shut off The Collegiate's supply of Bright Young...