Word: eleanors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference in Washington will be opened by Eleanor Foster Lansing, Chairman of the U. S. section of the Committee. Mrs. Lansing has every claim to being a true Lady of the State Department; her father was John W. Foster, who succeeded James G. Elaine as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Benjamin Harrison; her husband is Robert Lansing, who succeeded William J. Bryan as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. Besides her diplomatic antecedents, Mrs. Lansing is at home in such a gathering because of her mastery of both Castilian and South American Spanish...
Middle States. Hard by Germantown, at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Eleanor Goss of New York realized an ambition several years old. She finally overpowered Holla Mallory, deposed national women's champion, and wrested away the women's Middle States singles crown. Mrs. Mallory was not unsteady; Miss Goss achieved a crescendo in velocity and daring. Score...
...Frances Stevens Hall, widow of Rev. Edward W. Hall, murdered in New Brunswick, N. J., a year ago: Miss Sally Peters, who after the murder of my husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills was my confidante and spokeswoman, returned from resting in Europe and opened her campaign for the Republican nomination for the New York State Assembly from the Ninth Assembly District, where her family has lived for over a century...
...Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like...
National Women's Doubles. The Englishwomen finally poked their heads above the tidal wave of defeat which has drenched their invading aspirations. Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. B. C. Covell won the national doubles championship by steadiness and clockwork team play from Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Score: 2?6, 6?2, 6?1. Of singular interest during the match was the pronounced partisanship of the American audience for the English players...