Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years between 1927 and 1930, "when the world saw some pretty heavy drinking," Gloria Wandrous became one of the world's heaviest drinkers, inhabiting the tough and fancy speakeasies of Manhattan, where she awed bartenders by the amount she drank. Despairing, weary, intuitive, this 22-year-old girl went on sprees when she "drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters...
...stable relationship in Gloria's life was her friendship with Eddie Brunner. The relationship that finally destroyed her was her love for Weston Liggett, who met her in a speakeasy, became involved with her after Gloria had stolen his wife's mink coat. Eddie was tall, searching, goodhearted, a Stanford graduate who had become well-known as an illustrator in college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others...
...gaudiest main reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls...
First socialites to have themselves lugged to the track by hand were Katherine Wait, Kathleen Kennedy and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's half-sister, Gloria Baker...
Upheld by unanimous decision of the Appellate Court was New York's Supreme Court order making Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 11, a ward of the court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights...