Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
Married. Katherine Thorne, daughter of Robert Julius Thorne (onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., cousin of Gordon C. Thorne [see above]); and one George Gillespie, cowboy entertainer; In Phoenix, Ariz...
...while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
Died. Lillie Langtry (Lady de Bathe), 76, of Monte Carlo, onetime actress and "toast of two continents"; of influenza; in Monte Carlo. Her real name was Emelie Charlotte ("Lillie") Le Breton. She was born in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, the daughter of the very Reverend Dean of the Isle. She had six brothers. To the island, in a tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There...
...every day, millions of people are reading stories in some 1,200 newspapers-stories which begin with two letters, A. P. The man who, more than anyone else, made those two letters a symbol of accuracy and impartiality, died, last week, in his Manhattan home, with his wife and daughter at his bedside. He was 80 years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist. But his monument...