Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cavedweller is Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who drives about in a victoria, wears plumed hats, prefers foreigners, particularly Italians. A third Cavedweller is Mrs. Richard H. Townsend possessed of a Pennsylvania R. R. fortune. She has a monster Queen Anne house at Massachusetts & Florida Avenues. She bought for her daughter, Mrs. B. Sumner Welles (Senator Gerry's onetime wife) a $600,000 Russian pearl necklace...
...class by herself is Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of the Speaker of the House. Every Washington door is gladly open to her for her wit and charm. She moves freely through all sets, but her own parties are small, select, intellectualized- except for Mr. Longworth's stories...
Just 100 years ago this season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was pretty and pert-and sharp-tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon...
Engaged. Frances Parker, of Rye, N. Y., daughter of Board Chairman Junius Parker of American Tobacco Co.; to Alexander C. Neave, Manhattan lawyer...
Married. Elizabeth Stebbins Walbridge, of Manhattan, daughter of George Hicks Walbridge (Schick razors); and Kennedy Brown Bailey, of Cleveland; in Manhattan...