Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes vacationing to a winter sports colony in Switzerland, in order to be near the lady of his love-at-first-sight. There a thousand trifling circumstances force it upon his uneasy conscience that a headwaiter, though the apogee of elegance, is hardly high enough to reach for an heiress. Humbled for, the first time, he trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected one, inquires "What does it matter, anyway?" smoothes the lofty complacency that has suffered its first and only...
Clairenore Stinnes (German steel heiress, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes) roared out of Frankfurt Germany, at the steering wheel of her specially built Adler automobile with two wirehaired fox terriors. She was headed for Constantinople, via the Balkans-the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall...
...given at least a living wage such repetition should be continued. Eventually poor salaries may affect others than the unfortunate instructors and their families, fears; Dr. Angell. He foresees a steady decline in the quality of young teachers, who are not blessed with an independent income or an heiress in marriage...
Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
Elinor Dorrance, Campbell soup heiress: "I last week arrived at Cherbourg on S. S. Berengaria, after abandoning my recent venture in work in my father's factories (TIME, Nov. 8). I announced that I had given up the work because my father disliked the publicity that attended...