Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less. He flouts their social codes, which he dismisses as the unpractical rigmarole of idealists who "think of nothing but marriage and death and the honor of Virginia...
Died. Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, Prince of Connaught, 55, grandson of Queen Victoria, elder child & only son of the 88-year-old Duke of Connaught, close friend & first cousin once removed of the Duke of Windsor; of cancer of the throat; in London...
...Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches of Infinite Science, Inc. contracted to buy the Roycroft properties for $121,500 and take over most of the community's debts...
...that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks only forbearance: Cato the Elder destroyed Carthage, he says, and planted it with salt, but he did not afterwards ride through Carthage and blame its poverty on the Carthaginians...
...years after Francis Ormond French of Newport, R. I., lost his fortune ($500,000) in a stockmarket crash, he earned publicity and $17 by driving a Manhattan taxicab for three days. In 1934, his elder daughter Ellen married John Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last...