Word: cocoanuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
...Florida out of income. And by a home in Florida I don't mean a duchy or principality with a kingly villa in the centre, like the Great Khan Teagle's estate, but a few humble acres on the Gulf and a simple cottage with bougainvillea and cocoanut palms and poison ivy around...
...Baker cocoanut Swans-Down flour...
Doris Vinton, former star of "Manhatters", and recently heard in Boston as an entertainer at the Cocoanut Grove, is sponsoring the show, and it is expected that she will take the leading role. The name of the comedy has not been announced as yet. Plans are not wholly completed but the show will appear in Boston in the early fall, it was announced...
Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines...