Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City. He thought nothing of paying $250 for a single suit of clothes. He bought his wife so many jewels her friends began calling her "Diamond Anne." They lived in a $4,700-a-year apartment in Manhattan, had two houses and a farm in New Jersey, a winter home in Florida. In a good year the Martha Washington stores each grossed $6,000 a day and Mr. Washburne's income was $50,000 a year...
...discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic feeling was strong. Through a spokesman in the House of Lords, he publicly denied his marriage. Debts of ?600,000 made him desperate. Mrs. Fitzherbert's rival, Lady Jersey, intrigued to break their relationship. Suddenly the prince abandoned Mrs. Fitzherbert and officially took to wife Princess Caroline of Brunswick in order to raise money quickly. The Princess of Wales was ugly, slovenly, insane "in a humdrum though crazy way" and suffered one of the most wretched married careers...
...motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama hat which is his uniform for the Saratoga season, George H. Bull, portly president of the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses...
...George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last...
Last month Western Union was sued for $3,600,000 on the ground that under an obscure New Jersey statute of 1877 the company had participated in a lottery by transmitting chain telegrams. Last week in Chelsea, Mass. Western Union was cited for contempt of court because it accepted and transmitted two messages which protested the arrest of an obscure playactor and an allegedly suspicious character, thus offending the dignity of a district judge...