Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old mistress of vast, gloomy, allegedly haunted Glamis (pronounced Glarms) Castle in Scotland, legendary scene of Macbeth's murder of Duncan, died of heart disease last week in London. She was the hardworking, domestic, society-shunning Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England...
...WAKE UP MY HEART (Benny Goodman; Victor). Goodman-of-the-month. A nice tune into the bargain...
Died. Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 75, mother of England's Queen Elizabeth; of heart disease; in London...
Died. Philip Livingston, 76, retired lawyer, sportsman, socialite, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Among her U. S. admirers, the most ardent was a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy named Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath...