Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extraordinary talent and initiative," said the citation two years ago, and all Fort Worth beamed with pride. As the city's "Outstanding Young Man of 1955," Jack Donald Hubbard, then 35, was the kind of bigger-than-life operator that Texans instantly recognize and dearly love. Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce, a church elder, a United Fund official, district chairman of the Boy Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury...
...eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn-out struggle to civilize this unworthy man, but she left the fellow some time before he went broke. Instead of being that Victorian emblem, The Woman Alone Against the World. Harriet Hubbard Ayer became one of the first great modern career women...
...clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that Harriet was put into an insane asylum. New York in the '90s was no place or time to go mad in. Harriet Hubbard Ayer had a terrible time of it for 14 months...
...even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor old Bert Ayer's unpaid tabs before he died. And. some say, holding his hand...
...Imbecile † Sloppy ** Sallow †† Prematurely aged * The firm eventually went into receivership. Today's Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Nestle-Le Mur Co.), though named for her, is a different business, founded...