Word: brokaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club, with the best golf course in the islands. Here are the "cottages" of U. S. tycoons. Largest private house on the island is that of Manhattan's C. Ledyard Blair containing a marble staircase transported from his Fifth Avenue home. Nearby are the houses of Clifford V. Brokaw Jr., Philip Gardiner, Morgan J. O'Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero...
John Pierpont Morgan, Junius Spencer Morgan, Mrs. Louise Converse Morgan, John Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court...
WILLARD L. DAYTON C. L. MCVAUGH RAY W. LABBITT CHAS. E. BROKAW ROGER M. ANTHONY Detroit, Mich...
...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...
...practicing their loops, rockers, counters, brackets-the 48 figures that every skater must know before entering a tournament. Last week in Madison Square Garden a charity pageant was arranged on the ice in which all the socially registered people who know how to skate took part. Tall, ruddy Irving Brokaw, onetime holder of many amateur titles, was the King, a role properly awarded him in recognition of his 20-year patronage of fancy skating and of the interest which makes him hurry out of his big house on Fifth Avenue with his skates under his arm whenever, from his drawing...