Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. For two years Mrs. Whitney had kept her late brother's only daughter on her 3,000-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. while his widow occupied herself in smart European resorts. Last September, settled in a house in Manhattan, Mrs. Vanderbilt had little Gloria brought in from the country for a visit. The child became so overwrought at separation from Mrs. Whitney that her nurse whisked her back to her aunt. Thereupon, with a disregard of privacy which shocked her in-laws, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt practically charged her sister-in-law with kidnapping and instituted...
...educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned up as one of the most damaging witnesses against her own daughter. Mrs. Morgan testified that for four and a half years Mrs. Vanderbilt had callously ignored her child, given her no schooling while she "devoted herself...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared...
Justice Carew knew what Gloria herself wanted him to decide. Wide apart as were their worlds, he had had no trouble drawing the child out in their private heart-to-heart. He has raised three sons, two daughters of his own. A Columbia College and Law School graduate who still quotes Latin fluently, he worked up through the ranks, went to Congress in 1913, headed Tammany's delegation in the House for years. There he was a member of the potent Ways & Means Committee, a close crony of Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner. A devout Catholic and devoted...
...their three-hour chat Justice Carew found Gloria letter-perfect in both the Protestant "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" and Lord's Prayer and in the Catholic "Hail Mary." He also found that she decidedly wanted to stay with her Aunt Gertrude. It was not that she disliked her mother. But it had been no fun knocking around Europe with only an old nurse to play with. Her good times began at Old Westbury. She liked playing with her eight small cousins.* She liked her pony and dog. She liked going to Greenvale School every morning...