Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...evenly between Sweden and Norway, and only one was royal, Princess Ingrid, only daughter of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Fröken Irmelin Nansen, daughter of Polar Explorer Fridtjof Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess Martha, but the dressmaking...
...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...
Engaged. Hamilton Webster Thayer, of Hopedale, Mass., son of Judge Webster Thayer of Worcester, Mass., who gave the Sacco-Vanzetti decision; to Miss Elizabeth Wood of Manhattan, niece of famed Boston Broker Henry Hornblower (Hornblower & Weeks...
...Notable exception: the Four Marx Brothers. Groucho (Julius), Harpo (Arthur), Chico (Leonard) and Zeppo (Herbert) have the same mother, Minnie, the same father, Adolf. *Brought, last fall, to the U. S. by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Manhattan...