Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...
...There was an entry concerning it in the diary of one of the travelers, Patrick Breen: "Mrs. Murphy said here yesterday that [she] thought she would commence on Milt and eat him." She had. At the Donner family huts, Tamsen Donner had just sent a man to beg Elizabeth, Jacob Donner's wife, for a meal. The man was just returning with a leg of Elizabeth's husband. "At the sight of the rescuers, he tossed the now unneeded leg back on the butchered corpse." Jacob Donner's children "were sitting upon a log, with their faces...
Stressing the importance of American leadership in the post-war world, Jacob Anton De Hans, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships, addressed a tea given last Saturday by the Netherlands Club...
Kenneth D. Johannsen, Martin C. Johnson, Samuel L. Kent, 3rd, Jacob C. Levenson, Robert L. Mcmurtie, Summer N. Marder, Paul J. Miller, James A. Rafferty, George S. Richardson, Melvin Richter, Preston T. Roberts Jr., Christopher T. Taloumis, Samson O.E. Ullmann, Floyd G. Werner...
...young girls of the Beth Jacob School in Warsaw there was no consolation in Nietzche's cynicism: Men are made for war and women for warriors' pleasures. To a world whose capacity for indignation too rapidly becomes fatigued, a letter from one of these girls, published last week,* came as a blazing reminder of the sufferings of a people which barbarism has always attempted to destroy...