Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
Engaged. Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, nephew of Andrew William Mellon; and Mrs. Constance Prosser McCaulley, daughter of Manhattan Banker Seward Prosser, widow of Vance McCaulley, who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment last autumn, supposedly a suicide...
Died. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, socialite whose sensational marriage in 1924 to Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a Negro taxidriver, ended in years of litigation and finally divorce; of lobar pneumonia; in Long Beach...
Unmentioned in the playbill is the play's most important factor: the Wylers' 19th Century oil fortune. It is the property of old Mrs. Wyler, her flighty daughter Leonie (Ina Claire) and her granddaughter Paula. Since old Mrs. Wyler belongs to the timocratic generation, and was once a friend of the elder Rockefellers, the money causes her no psychological distress. But it comes close to preventing Paula from winning a conscientious young radical from Amherst. And it nearly gets Leonie involved in a degrading alliance with an unscrupulous psychiatrist who professes to be of the same breed...
...fortune only to the basest uses-whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter...