Word: ganson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest, emotional, impulsive, self-centered girl, "not much to look at," Mabel Ganson enjoyed life in Buffalo, drove her unloved and unloving father to bed when she bobbed her hair long before bobbing was the style. She had a wild but innocent relationship with Seward Cary, husband of one of her friends who taught her to ride, took her on a coaching party through the Berkshires. One night, at a country inn while other members of the party were asleep, Cary "chased me all over the outside of the building; over roofs and down fire escapes, along mad, narrow ledges...
Eighteen years ago Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, Buffalo socialite and intelligentsiac hostess, tired of Europe...
...Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo...
...Henry Ganson was an impersonal philanthropist. He gave money to causes of which he approved but never to individuals, no matter how much he liked them. Though it was not at all evident that Mr. Ganson really liked anybody, almost everybody in the Dorchester School of Music admired him, almost everybody feared him. He applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson...
Diagnosing his trouble as heartlessness, Nina set to work to galvanize the atrophied organ-into life. She sent him books, messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John...