Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whispering gallery whispered in 1922 when Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, young society girl, married Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, a man twice her age. Today no one can say that it has not been a happy marriage, that Mrs. Edge has not added a youthful zest to Washington society, that she has not brightened the lives of unhappy Congressional wives at many an otherwise dull luncheon or dinner. This January she was undoubtedly surprised and flattered to hear that she had come within a few votes of being elected president of the Congressional Club...
Thereupon, Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, Democrat, famed for the appearance of his face in Lucky Strike advertisements, offered Mr. Dawes a cigaret. The Vice President accepted it, took two deep inhales, crumpled it on his plate. Later, in the drawing room, he resorted to his pipe...
Died. David Baird, 87, onetime (1918-19) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; following an acute kidney condition; at Camden...
...tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week, one C. E. Miller let it be known that in some white gypsum hills near Estelline, Tex., he had found a colony...
Robert Lee Summers Jr. of Brookline was elected President of the class of 1930 in the Freshman election, the results of which were announced last night. The vice-presidency was won by Arthur Lithgon Devens Jr. of Boston, and James Roosevelt of Hyde Park, New Jersey, was elected secretary-treasurer...