Word: danae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edith Longfellow died in 1915 as the wife of able Boston Lawyer Richard Henry Dana, son of Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast). Annie (Allegra) Longfellow remains, is the wife of Boston Lawyer Joseph G. Thorp...
...hold some 10,000 persons. With this edifice packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...
...hundred artists, illustrators and cartoonists, headed by Charles Dana Gibson, and including Clare A. Briggs, Percy Crosby, H. C. ("Bud") Fisher, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Milt Gross, John Held Jr., Oliver Herford, Rea Irwin, Maxfield Parrish, Abram Poole, George Benjamin Luks, William Meade Prince, Henry Patrick Raleigh, Cliff Sterrett, Herbert Roth, H. T. Webster, Gluyas Williams, announced through the Democratic National Committee active support of Nominee Smith...
Lady Astor, who used to be Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, came over from England for the occasion. There was more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years...
Lady Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Mirador, Grenwood, Va.), member of the British Parliament, arrived on the Aquitania with 27 pieces of baggage, a diamond tiara and a daughter (Phyllis). They were met at the pier by Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That...