Word: kissam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a gigolo but also a thief, is a handsome one-eyed Serb, Djoritch Milan, who admitted to Paris police that he had stolen jewels from the Paris residence of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. From Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklace, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves...
...this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...
...Manhattan, 3,000 persons paid $1 each for the privilege of inspecting the onetime residence of William Kissam Vanderbilt, soon to be demolished. A cinema, an orchestra, stars from the Metropolitan Opera Company, provided diversion for those who wished to sit in the great oak-beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed...
When the prizes were distributed, Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt II could not restrain a smile, several smiles. Horse Sarazen was her horse. Pierre Wertheimer smiled too, but a bit grimly. His Epinard had failed him again, for second money does not become "the finest horseflesh of France...