Word: eleanors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Eleanor Smith, dark daughter of Lord Birkenhead, made public complaints, last week, when she heard that Gypsies were to be excluded this year from Epsom Downs during the running of the Derby. Lady Eleanor knows the Romany language, likes to visit Gypsy caravans. The ban was imposed for sanitary reasons and to prevent a neighborhood nuisance...
Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
...Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., who still lives tranquilly at Winchester. . . . The discovery of Marie Byrd Land seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor the base bark City of New York in the fast-packing Bay of Whales...
...Pole Expedition started from that port for a year and a half in Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...
Behind her at Dunedin she left another Byrd ship, the Eleanor Boiling. She is to follow the City of New York about Christmas time, when the Antarctic ice is mushy from its summer's heat...