Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dresses belonged to them; thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...
...race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...
Engaged. Elizabeth Murton du Pont. 20, daughter of Director Eugene E. du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., to Walter Samuel Carpenter 3d. 22. son of du Font's vice president, Walter S. Carpenter Jr.; in Wilmington...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...