Word: fitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just what should be expected of a son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald (whose father boasted that she had turned down the marriage offer of that tea-making sail-boatin' Britisher Sir Thomas Lipton) and a grandson of Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald...
...saloonkeeper, was the Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor Boston ever...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
Among the portraits is one of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the two John Winthrops after whom the house is named. Other members of the family represented in the collection are Adam Winthrop, Fitz-John Winthrop, Thomas Charles Winthrop, John Still Winthrop, and Robert Winthrop...
WOLFSON ALLY Alexander Rittmaster resigned from the Montgomery Ward board only one month after Louis Wolfson himself quit. Wolfson's sole remaining Monkey Ward director: Advertising Consultant Bernice Fitz-Gibbon...