Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Younger Mitchells, the most famed is gay and debonair John J. Mitchell Jr. His marriage to Lolita Armour, meatpacker's heiress, thrilled society in the U. S. & Europe. This Armour connection assumed possible importance when Chicagoans recalled that the name of Philip D. Armour heads the list of directors of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., whose stock, like that of Illinois Trust, has been skyrocketing. Close are the ties which bind the Armour interests and Continental. President Arthur Reynolds of Continental is also a director and member of the finance committee of Armour...
Filiberta Madruzzo, the Cardinal's niece, is "a beautiful and innocent girl" and "heiress to all the family wealth," yet he heartlessly imprisons her, "yielding perhaps to the threats or prayers of Claudia...
...Netherlands behaved most obstreperously when, at the age of nine, she was compelled to change trains at a small railway station. Rushing up to the station master she stamped her foot, cried: "I am afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly...
Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...