Word: elberon
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Great wealth prompted them to maintain a social structure as exclusive in its way as Mrs. Astor's, to whose balls they were of course never invited. Manhattan from the East 60s to the East 80s was their principality; Elberon. N.J., a summer watering place, became known as the Jewish Newport. Familiengefühl (family feeling) was their religion: the Seligman social calendar registered 243 anniversaries a year...
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Soon he could not only reel off the names of the Presidents in order and without a slip, but he also mastered their dates, parties, terms, major accomplishments. When he got better, his parents took him driving around the Jersey countryside. One day in nearby Elberon (pop. 985), the Frankels came across a wooden sign in the window of an old private garage, bearing the crude message...
...been one of distribution rather than production. He has played the U.S. sticks from Wenatchee, Wash, to Portland, Me. His wife, who once cooked his meals on a one-ring gas burner, now presides over a massive West Side apartment in Manhattan and a 22-room house at Elberon, NJ. On the main road entering his home town of Circleville, the local Kiwanis Club has erected a conspicuous sign reading "Circleville, home of Ted Lewis...
...Gertrude A. Canniff of Peekskill, N. Y. sued Mrs. Samuel Schiffer of Elberon, N. J. for $1,950, charging that last fall at Peekskill's horse show a prize stallion belonging to Mrs. Schiffer had reached out of his stall, bitten her hand, swallowed her wristwatch...