Word: duponts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dupont funds for advanced study in Chemistry has been awarded to Edward M. Fry, of Fort Worth, Texas, for the next academic year, the University announced today. Fry graduated from Rice Institute in 1931 and is now a candidate for a doctor's degree at the University of Virginia...
Established here in 1936, the DuPont fellowship is one of the seven large scholarships recently alloted to various universities by the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware to stimulate advanced research in chemical science...
...lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont, who lived with him while he worked on his opera, Pelleas et Melisande; Rosalie Texier (Wife No. 1), who had an unpleasant voice which finally got on his nerves; Emma Bardac (Wife No. 2), a singer with a pleasant voice who lived with him until his death...
...work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder Cadillacs. Sometimes she appears in riding-habit, accompanied by her French poodles, who have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice is charming, but she knows all the words in any man's vocabulary. Once she got an interview with Al Capone by walking...
Presuming that a man spells his own name correctly on his stationery, it may interest you to know that on the die-stamped letterhead of Mr. P. S. duPont the name appears in all capitals, with the "du" slightly smaller just as TIME used it on the June 28 cover...