Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts in the East and Middle West, both musically and financially successful, accompanied by as many luncheons, tea dances, dinners, debutante balls, sightseeing tours, and special entertainments, the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs disbanded in Chicago after the Sunday afternoon concert of December 30. Some departed homeward; about 20 members left that night at 9 o' clock for Boston in one of the special cars while the Glen Douglas special left the following morning with those men who had remained for a dinner dance...
...sharp contrast, artistic as well as factual, is Julia Peterkin's cadenced history of a Negro woman who never left the plantation, and yet developed a mature philosophy, spangled with ancient superstition. Si May-e's story touches peaks of high comedy, drops to depths of black misery, and through it all glows the indomitable vitality of Si Maye herself...
...Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London. Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess...
...Rapallo, Manhattan, Cape Cod and points north, east, south & west, has confessed and proven that he is none other than himself. It all happened this way. Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien"; he identified himself by showing a passport and an old account book with entries of royalties from...
...dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary Weir Logan...