Word: grier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy, intellectual, unable to sleep until dawn and therefore noted for midnight suppers from which her guests escape with difficulty. Her private musicians fill the remaining night hours with concerts from esoteric composers, to which she listens with "the finest contrapuntal ear of her day." It is she, Elizabeth Grier, ever alert for novelty, who attaches the young New Englander to the Cabala and involves him in its members' affairs...
Mlle. Marie Astrée-Luce de Morfontaine is younger and, owning more shares in the Suez Canal than the Rothschilds, even richer than Miss Grier. Tall and gaunt, she has a Giottesque religious intensity and the emotional experience of a child. Hers is the plan to hold an Ecumenical Council and promulgate the divine right of kings as a dogma of the Church...
...John Grier Hibben. President of Princeton University, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the annual Commencement exercises on June 25. Leonard Bacon, a young poet, and a graduate of Yale, has been chosen to give the poem...
...other Justices of the Supreme Court, from eight members of the Cabinet and innumerable ex-members, from eleven Senators, from General Pershing and the late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from John Drew and J. Ramsay Mcdonald, from William Randolph Hearst and John Grier Hibben, from Colonels George Harvey and Edward M. House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed...
...after King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Workmen went to work on it last fortnight. Their wages and the materials and the fee to Architects Cram and Ferguson, will total $1,750,000. This great sum must come, is coming, from Princeton's alumni and friends. Last week President John Grier Hibben announced that $1,419,000 had come, including $25,000 from a modest, retiring old gentleman who has served Princeton in this way and that longer than any other living man. He is John Aikman Stewart, Columbia...