Word: esher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Solomon Litman, sat tearfully in a corner, nudged by her young son Syd who cried: "Momma, look!" when Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak arrived with the bride's sister Leonora ("Princess Gold"). Countess of Inchcape and the bride's grandmother, Lady Esher...
From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...
...fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened by the fact that Rajah Brooke's wife is a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, his daughter is the wife of British Shipping Tycoon Lord Inchcape and his brother and heir Major Bertram Brooke is wedded to the onetime Gladys Palmer (Huntley & Palmers biscuits) who enjoys the distinction among Mohammedans of possessing the tunic of The Prophet, values...
Crown officials granted permission for a large office building to be erected on the Carleton House terrace block overlooking the Mall. Reporters quickly discovered that such a building will impair the view from Buckingham Palace. The Daily Express immediately recalled an interview with Viscount Esher (son-in-law of New York's August Heckscher) in which he said...