Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SENT FORTH A RAVEN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts- Viking...
...evening of March 1, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur left the White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo...
Fifty-eight years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work...
...master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back...