Word: holt
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Widow. The Endowment's only woman trustee is Mrs. Nanaline Holt Inman Duke. The Holts are a First Family of Macon, Ga. Her first husband, Walter Inman, was of Atlanta's aristocracy. In 1907, widowed, she married Buck Duke, who had divorced his first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is Daughter Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed...
...AMBROSE HOLT AND FAMILY-Susan Glaspell?Stokes...
...When he wanted to build a house he had his policemen round up vagrants whom he turned into paid workmen. Some of his other activities: judge, lighthouse keeper, sanitary inspector, census taker, doctor. The baby problem he solved by sending for the late Dr. Luther Emmet Holt's Care & Feeding of Children...
...ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died in 1914). Mrs. Hayward claims to be the daughter of Bertha Wendel Davis, born to John Gottlieb Wendel II and Hannah Holt Wendel...
Finding himself out of a job at the end of the war Holt, by a series of events which are mainly left to the imagination, becomes a notorious gangster. The combined efforts of Miss Cummings and Mr. Moore fail to save the racketeer and he is last seen in a storm of sentimentality being accompanied to the electric chair by his ineffectual benefactors...