Word: bridesmaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sworn in before the President's address to the joint session (see p. 14). This piece of misinformation almost deprived Mrs. Roosevelt of a very special pleasure. Just as she was about to leave the galleries with the rest of the spectators, she turned to see her bridesmaid and lifelong friend, Isabella Greenway, take the oath of office as Congresswoman-at-large from Arizona...
...bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead in New Mexico. Mr. Ferguson died in 1921 and she married his good friend John Greenway two years later...
...Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near Tyrone, N. Mex. Separated, Mary Pickford, 40, and Douglas Fairbanks, 50, long reputed the happiest couple in Hollywood, after three...
...Wales within the week. Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London suffered severely. London had 1,100 postal workers sick abed. Leeds curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause of a violent death because all the jurymen and most of the witnesses had influenza. At Whittingham bailiffs were obliged to hunt substitutes for the police magistrates, all of whom were...
...Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full...