Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoroughly incensed was Mrs. Whitney. Her sister-in-law had taken a family squabble to court, practically accusing her of kidnapping her own niece, small Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...
...Gloria Hollister has a year-round job in the New York Zoological Society's tropical research department but she has accompanied Dr. Beebe on his bathysphere junkets for five years. Twenty-five years before that she was born in Suffern, N. Y. Putting aside dolls at an early age, she shortly began dissecting snakes, toads and moles, producing grotesque breeds of chickens. She explored stream bottoms by going under with rocks roped to her waist, a long glass tube to breathe through. Graduated from Connecticut College for Women, she conducted a thrill-hungry matron through the wilds of British Guiana...
This colloquy took place one day last week over a telephone cable connecting blonde, comely Gloria Hollister on the deck of a barge with the sturdy little steel ball that was taking William Beebe and Otis Barton to a greater depth in the sea than man had ever reached before...