Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood...
Died. Frederick William Vanderbilt, 82, oldest surviving member of the family, only surviving son of William Henry Vanderbilt, grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; after a week's illness; in Hyde Park, N. Y. An unassuming philanthropist, he possessed the twin talents of most Vanderbilts for railroading and yachting, was a director of 22 railroads, sailed his ships on the seven seas. Once he landed on the rocks off the coast of Colombia, was rescued with difficulty by a United Fruit liner...
...build up its collection the company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...
...private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee...