Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best harness horses in the world are bred in the U. S. Greatest standard-bred nursery in the world is Walnut Hall Farm, near Lexington, Ky., owned by Dr. & Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards Jr. (nee Lela Harkness, Standard Oil heiress). For the past 23 years, Walnut Hall has averaged 100 foals a year, has bred more trotting champions than any other U. S. stud. This year Walnut Hall sold 95 yearlings at the Old I Glory Sale, more than any other nursery, grossing $113,985, an average of approximately $1,200 per horse. Walnut Hall also received the highest...
...defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York...
Died. Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, fifth Duke of Talleyrand, 78, husband of Railway Heiress Anna Gould; of a heart attack; in Paris. The Duke married Heiress Gould in 1908 after she had been divorced from his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. Her father, Jay Gould, who bequeathed her $80,000,000, opposed their marriage...
Belligerently in Buckingham Palace the heiress to the Throne, strong-willed little Princess Elizabeth, bothered the King & Queen at this juncture in World affairs by insisting that she and her little sister Princess Margaret Rose be permitted to ride with Their Majesties in the glittering State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week. Their Majesties had resolved that their little daughters shall not be "spoiled" by too much public acclaim. Princess Elizabeth lost her battle at the last moment and she and her sister rode to the opening in the coach of Lady Helen Graham, which followed the royal...
...Garden of Adonis is as involved as the writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since the invasion...