Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field in the history of the event, most of the 4,000 spectators were especially eager to see the performance of Joan Tozzer, 17, defending champion, and Audrey Peppe, 20, who lost the title last year by the heart-breaking margin of 1 10 of a point. Joan Tozzer, blueblood, blonde daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer, is a letter-perfect skater of school figures (which count two-thirds in determining a national champion). Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy), petite vivacious niece of Beatrix Loughran, national figure-skating champion in 1925-26-27 is famed...
Most of Abbott's actors have worked for him before, call themselves unofficially the Abbott Acting Company, team together smoothly. Arlene Francis is a countess who could warm any blueblood, and Allyn Joslyn, one of the merry scenarists in Boy Meets Girl, makes the playboy a likable wag in spite of his practical jokes and bowlegged puns. Sample: "A lecher is a man who collects lechings...
...GODS ARRIVE-Grant Lewi-Lippincott ($2.50). Comfortably overstuffed Depression chronicle of a 26-year-old Albany blueblood who deserts his family for New York's bohemia, comes to his senses as a disillusioned department store executive...
...notice you often refer to certain people as being "well-born," "blue-blooded," and so on. For instance, in one sentence you speak of ". . . Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan lawyer . . . and Undersecretary Phillips, the Boston blueblood. . . ." [TIME...
Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...