Word: georgina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transcontinental motor trip to Hollywood, Gladys Cecil Georgina Lady Guernsey, mother of the cinemastruck Earl of Aylesford, paused at Dallas, had 18 pairs of shoes, four suitcases full of clothes and two sable wraps worth $25,000 stolen from her parked...
When he finished writing The Life of Our Lord, A History of Our Savior Jesus Christ, in 1849, Charles Dickens gave the book, not to his publishers, but to his six children. When he died, the book went to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death...
...father, a Greek clergyman-orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, a Serbian inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom he soon quit. His naturalization papers he keeps in a safety box, his scientific medals and degrees in old trunks and cupboards...