Word: hettye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The oldster was Pliny Fisk and his fun began in 1881 when he graduated from Princeton to the investment banking house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on...
New York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his...
After eccentric, peg-legged Colonel Edward H. R. ("Ned") Green, son of fabulous old Miser Hetty Green, died at 67 in Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States-as well as...
¶ That he wrote a letter in 1924 to the Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., asking for his left leg, which had been amputated when he was 21, and which his mother, Hetty Green, had buried in the family plot; and that he received the leg.
But Author MacNeice does his best work when he is laughing up his Celtic sleeve at the cordial disrespect with which the general run of things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress...