Word: hobe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...director of several banks, railroads and insurance companies. No stranger to Europe, he used to spend an average of two months a year there on business. When he left Washington and the War Department in December 1945, he returned to Wall Street. This week he was vacationing in Hobe Sound...
Edsel seldom made headlines, either in his stewardship or in private life. His houses in Detroit, Seal Harbor and Hobe Sound were lavish. He had three yachts. But his likes were extremely simple. In the evenings, he often sat around playing hearts, rummy or backgammon with his family. At his $3,000,000 Seal Harbor house, he loved to prowl along the rocky Maine coast with his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford (whom he had married in 1916), to find a cozy corner in the lee of a boulder and read to her in his soft, shy voice. He played tennis...
Last week Hobe Erwin, a Manhattan decorator, was fired by oil rationing and the trend of history to display his unique collection of 19th-Century coal and wood stoves (prices: $30 to $200). Manhattanites, sweltering all week long, did not buy a single stove, but Hobe Erwin, waiting almost as eagerly as the Russians for a frost, is sure they will. Meanwhile his stoves' iron elegance appealed to amateurs of American...
Type No. 1 in his collection is a Franklin stove. Type No. 2 is the same with a covered front ("The girls," said Hobe, "got precious and wanted fancy doors on their stoves"). Type No. 3 is the box stove sometimes known as the "chunk," forerunner of the kitchen range...
Seeking Divorce. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 35; from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, multi-millionaire horseman and Pan American Airways board chairman; after ten years' marriage; in Hobe Sound...