Word: lelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frantically, for 36 hours last week, Mr. Noyes tried to reach Mrs. Simpson by transatlantic telephone. She would not speak with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness...
...prosecution's explanation was simpler: Lois Thompson and her sister Lelia had cooked up the whole thing just for excitement. A Department of Justice agent testified that the handwriting on the extortion notes was Lelia's, held up enlarged specimens to prove it. Two of the jurors could not read or write, but with the rest they brought in a verdict of guilty, condemning Lois Thompson to 30 days in jail. Shortly thereafter Daniel Shaw, having quit Northeastern State Teachers College forever, was well out in the Pacific...
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...
...fashionable West End, the Duke of Westminster has an income of $1,225,000 a year out of which he pays $50,000 in alimony to the two wives who divorced him for adultery. He was a grandfather at 46. In 1930, at 51, he married his third wife, Lelia Ponsonby. He has a taste for shawl-collared evening coats, a disdainful extravagance which causes him to use his footmen instead of the mails for messages to his friends. Lady Sibell, whose mother, the Countess of Beauchamp, is the Duke's sister, had opportunities to learn more about...
Born in Canada (like Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer), Lelia Koerber (Marie Dressier) grew up in Cobourg, Ontario where her father was a music teacher. At five she performed as Cupid in a church pageant, made her audience laugh by falling off a pedestal. At 14, under her stage name (borrowed from an aunt) she joined an itinerant stock opera troupe, finally got a chance to understudy Katisha in The Mikado for $8 a week. Eight years later, playing in the same theatre, she was getting $800 a week...