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...Said Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. who, with his wife, was the first "outsider" to fly in the Sky Car: "Bill Stout told us it would become but a matter of two or three hours for anyone who drove an automobile to learn to fly [the plane]. . . . Speed is 100 m. p. h. You can get 24 miles to the gallon of gasoline and stay in the air nearly five hours with a tank full. It will first sell in the neighborhood of $1,500; and might be purchased within a few months for less than...
...including a wide variety of types of songs and differences in dynamics in order to ascertain the relative effectiveness of the offerings. The program will probably consist of the following numbers: "My Spirit Be Joyful", by Bach; "Inimici Autem", by Lassus; "Spring Returns", a composition of Marenzio; "Salamaleikum", by Cornelius; "Jesu Dulcis", Vittoria; "Choruses from "Pinafore'", by Sullivan...
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale...
...founder of Fortnum & Mason was one Cornelius Fortnum, faithful servitor of Queen Anne. For years he held the unique monopoly of being allowed to take and sell the Court's old candles, for Queen Anne would never allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary...
...moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter and Gysbert Hondecoeter, while still life is present in the form of the broad powerful drawings of Jan van Huysums...