Word: beresford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage), Helene Violette de Talleyrand (Anna's daughter by her second marriage): Anna Eleanor Marie Raymonde de Castellane, Pauline Beatrix Yvonne Helene Flourida de Castellane (Anna's grandchildren); Francoise Florence de Montenach, Rolande Dorothy de Graffenried de Villiers (grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names such as Anthony J. Drexel III, Caroline de Peyster Wainright, Gioia Bishop (various other grandchildren of George...
...President Joseph Vincent McKee of New York City's Board of Aldermen. Joseph Hergesheimer was staying with James H. R. Cromwell. Arthur Somers Roche ate buffet dinner with Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Countess Edith di Zoppola visited the Harrison Williamses. The English nobility was represented by the Honorable Moya Beresford (great granddaughter of the late, notorious Jay Gould), the highly eligible Duke of Sutherland and Earl of Warwick. Last week all three said they were hugely enjoying the season. Members of the Artists & Writers Golf Association were guests at a ping-pong tournament in the ballroom of the Breakers...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...
...Trade within the Empire (TIME, March 3, 1930). The editor refused, quit, took practically his whole staff with him and founded The Week End Review. The Saturday Review never recovered. Last week it announced its acquisition by the virile Conservative Spectator. Founded 76 years ago by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace" of Russia and Germany. But its true consequence was literary rather than political, particularly at the turn of the century when Frank Harris was editor and George Bernard Shaw music critic...
Died. Lady Helen Vivien Decies, 39, daughter and heiress of the late George Jay Gould, wife of John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Boer War veteran; of jaundice and heart attack; in London...