Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis, N. Y. For generations their interests have lain cross-country and down the Hudson toward New York rather than down the Delaware toward Philadelphia. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's money came from an old New York fortune. Snobbish Philadelphia hates the Pinchots because their social life centres in Manhattan, where Mrs. Pinchot, as a descendant of Peter Cooper, can indulge with impunity her eccentricities against a Colony Club background. It was to New York, not Philadelphia...
...first chance to see a pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott- president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which has produced magistrates, deputies, mayors, a provincial president and a founder of the University of Utrecht. She has worked among girls for 25 years. Unsalaried, she presides over committee meetings and staff work in Geneva, travels...
...Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts); Grandniece Consuelo (Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith); Great-grandsons Whitney and Roderick Tower, William Barklie Henry, Harry Payne Whitney II; Great-grand-daughters Flora Miller, Gertrude Henry, Nancy Whitney...
Sued for Divorce. John Francis Amherst Cecil, onetime secretary of the British Embassy at Washington; by Mrs. Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, only daughter of the late George Washington Vanderbilt; in Paris. By her father's will which left her approximately $50,000,000. Mrs. Cecil was required to live at least six months of the year at "Biltmore House," the huge French Renaissance chateau he built near Asheville, N. C. Her marriage, ten years ago this month, was an international occasion. Following it, Mr. Cecil gave up his diplomatic career, became manager of his wife's estate...
...underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassiére and Pola Negri's stepin. Other actresses who yielded underclothes: Hope Williams, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jean Arthur...