Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revived the Junto was John Frederick Lewis Jr. Heir to a great Philadelphia fortune, frowzy-haired, rumple-shirted John Lewis works. 3 twelve hours a day keeping culture alive in Philadelphia. He is on the boards of 21 cultural institutions, heads the Academy of Music (a Lewis heirloom), the Mercantile Library, the Art Alliance. He inherited the largest single collection of portraits of Washington, and gave them away to Philadelphia's schools...
Married. George Frederick Schrafft, 22, candy heir, speedboat racer; and Susan Stone Stephenson, sister-in-law of Victor Mature; in Manhattan...
VICTORIA'S HEIR-George Danger-field-Harcourt, Brace...
...blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction and fraud by the hula dancer he married while Evelyn Thorye was still his wife, won an annulment of the hula marriage, withdrawal of the bigamy case, dismissal of the damage suit, a divorce from Evelyn...
Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...