Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Roosevelt III, 25, grandson of the late President; and Anne Babcock, 21, Louisville Junior Leaguer; in Louisville, Ky. Plentiful were Republican Roosevelts at the wedding: the bridegroom's father, Colonel Theodore, whose plane was forced down en route; Aunt Alice Roosevelt Longworth; the groom's brothers Cornelius and Quentin; Uncle Archibald. Absent: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, T. R.'s widow, shaken but unhurt in a four-car collision in Queens, N. Y.; Uncle Kermit, a machine gun officer in the British Army...
...organized baseball and thought his $5,000 last year was big money) proved he could count. He accepted the Philadelphia Athletics' offer: a $45,000 bonus, a two-year contract at $10,000 a year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than...
...Millions had gone into its transatlantic run, and Pan Am, so they thought, had grown too big for one boss. Last March Juan Trippe's wings were clipped. To by-pass most of his administrative functions, the Board named another man Chief Executive Officer: its chairman, polo-playing Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, one of the original Argonauts who backed Trippe 14 years ago and had been Trippe's friend through most of the great adventure...
...opera with Society Empress Grace Wilson (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt, Georgia-born Mrs. J. Ormond Lawson-Johnston, once a Broadway mammy singer known as Betty Lee, now a London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...
Shaggy-browed Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy) celebrated his 77th birthday, admitted that he had picked his son Earle, 47, to succeed him as president-manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, hastily covered his slip: "But he'll be wearing long, grey whiskers before then...