Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncertain. There was John Cabot (1450-1498), explorer?but he was more properly Giovanni Cabote, an Italian. There was George Cabot, President of the Hartford Convention in 1814-1815. But a Boston Who's Who of 1851 says that his family originated in Beverly, Mass., and was formerly called Corbett. This source might make James J. Corbett (whilom champion pugilist) kin to the Cabots of Boston...
...incident at Philadelphia aroused much editorial comment in the press. Said the New York Tribune : " Fancy Henry Corbett Lodge! . . . The idea of spurious Cabots is as disturbing as the thought of counterfeit antiques in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...
...least of Mr. Hearst's acquisitions is the autobiography of a rebellious inhabitant of " American Society's one Mount Olympus, a golden clique of Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds and those akin to them in blue blood and vast riches." In close proximity to the teachings of James J. Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Prudence Penny, Mrs. Clara Phillips ("hammer slayer") and Arthur Brisbane, appeared Chapter...
William Randolph Hearst has the reputation of paying higher salaries to his writers than any other newspaper proprietor in the country. Lately he added another to his galaxy of facile pens, which includes Arthur Brisbane, James J. Corbett, George W. Hinman, Gene Sarazen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George, Damon Runyon, Prudence Penny, B. C. Forbes, James Oppenheim, Myron T. Herrick. The latest artist of the pen to join this group is Mrs. Clara Phillips, " hammer slayer...