Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heiress Marjorie Gould Drexel Gundry, 27, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould, daughter of Philadelphia's Main Line Anthony J. Drexels, offered no defense against charges that she had stolen a yacht captain from his wife, who thus won a suit for alienation of affections. Mrs. Axel Julius Danielson, wife of the yacht captain, who worked for Mrs. Gundry, asked $100,000 damages...
...Idaho-born Ezra Pound, who has been in Italy since 1924 and broadcasts for the Fascists, and these Berlin propagandists: Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, Iowan Fred Kaltenbach, Georgian Jane Anderson, Pennsylvanian Constance Drexel...
...What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...
Heavily engraved invitations sent out by Lady Decies (formerly Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia) sent the British Library of Information bustling about over a point of etiquette. Said the invitation: "Lady Elizabeth Decies (the Right Honorable Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies) requests the pleasure of your company," etc. But Lady Decies, pointed out the B.L.I., is merely wife of a privy councillor of the lowest rank of the peerage (John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies). is therefore a "Lady," but not a "Right Honorable." Nor can she call herself "Lady Elizabeth," nor "Elizabeth, Lady," titles proper only...
...into Harry Hopkins, cracked wise with Winston Churchill, battled bugs and censors in Russia, discovered that Russians are human, went through a cowboy-and-Indian melodrama of tank warfare in the Libyan desert, ended up in London having a post-Pearl Harbor Christmas dinner with Ambassador Anthony Drexel Biddle...