Word: eliza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliza Kellas, principal, Emma Willard School...
Auxiliary. The Women's Auxiliary of the Legion, also in convention, elected Mrs. Eliza London Sheppard of San Francisco as its head. Her brother is the late famed he-man writer, Jack London...
...Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
Merchant Jumel. They slapped their thighs in the Merchants' Exchange; they discussed it in a nervous whisper in the Tontine Coffee House. Merchant Stephen Jumel, the richest man in Manhattan in 1800, had installed one Eliza Bowen in his mansion on Whitehall Street, bought her a fine carriage in which she paraded, the huzzy, to the disgruntlement of other matrons who, though formally wedded, had no carriages. She was a bad one, this Eliza. At 19, she had given birth to a brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance...
...There were two children of this marriage, Eliza, who married Judge Hay of Virginia, and Maria, who married Samuel L. Gouverneur of New York."-James Monroe by Daniel Coit Gilman...