Word: goulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What excuse was given by Britisher Mills when drubbed at court tennis by Jay Gould in 1907? (See SPORT...
Last week an item concerning Jay Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
...other portraits recently acquired are one of Sir Thomas Plummer, painted by Thomas Laurence, and the other of Francis Bacon, Lord Vernlam, by Van Summers. There is also an oil painting of Mr. Justice Gould of the King's Bench...
...same bankers until the late Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909) bought the Southern Pacific with the desire of merging it with the Union Pacific. He took his business to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., where it had remained until this new development. The Frisco used to be one of the Gould roads, until the intricate financial strength of that family became unloosed and scattered...
...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...