Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...
...Consumers' Advisory Board, eldest daughter of the late Edward Henry Harriman; of injuries sustained six weeks ago when her horse fell on her during a hunt; in Washington. An intensely energetic organizer, she was a founder of such diverse bodies as the Junior League (with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt). Manhattan's swank Colony Club, the Community Councils for National Defense (later to become the charitarian Community Councils), the Eastern Livestock Co-operative Marketing Association. In 1910 she married polo-playing Sculptor Charles Carey Rumsey, who was killed twelve years later in an automobile accident. An early & generous supporter...
Diplomatic Paris couturiers divided the 1934 title of Best Dressed Woman in the World among 20 sleek ladies, admitted that Manhattan's Mrs. Harrison Williams, winner of last year's title, had again topped many a private list. Other U. S. winners: Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. divorced wife of California's Senator McAdoo; Mrs. Frank Jay Gould ; Actresses Tallulah Bankhead & Ina Claire...
...seemed abruptly healed last week when Evangeline Cory Booth arrived in England to take up her duties as the Army's autocratic world general. As her ship docked Miss Booth received flowers and a letter from the two kinswomen who for years had fought her-the widow, Florence Eleanor, and the daughter, Catherine, of her late brother Bramwell. Later when 10,000 Salvationists gathered to greet their General in London's Albert Hall, not only were Niece Catherine and Sister-in-law Florence on the platform but also Commissioner Henry Mapp, who had been Evangeline Booth...
...Died, Eleanor, Viscountess Sandhurst, 73, last surviving child of Poet Matthew Arnold (Sohrab & Rustum), widow of the onetime (1912-21) Lord Chamberlain of England; in London...