Word: esther
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private citizens which any number of other Americans could or would have done as well. . . ." When fog trapped the Aquitania 200 miles out of New York, slowing her progress, Hero Young became impatient. The next day his eldest son, Charles Jacob Young, was being married in Cleveland to Miss Esther Marie Christensen. From Paris Hero Young had promised his prospective daughter-in-law to attend her wedding, even if the Reparations compact had to be rushed to signature. It was early evening before the liner paused at Quarantine where Hero Young boarded a special tug sent by the New York...
Owen D. Young caught the Aquitania last week, and it was important that he should do so. On June 15 he was due to be in Cleveland, calling the world's attention to the marriage of his sober-minded son, Charles Jacob, to Miss Esther Mary Christensen, talented black-and-white artist, chic daughter of Danish inventor and Vice Consul Niels Anton Christensen...
Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish vice-consul...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
...Strange Case of Lena Smith. A series of patient, beautifully photographed and slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef...