Word: leona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leona Jane Ettlinger, elder daughter of Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co., returned from a walk with her father in Manhattan's Central Park, found that she had lost a $70,000 necklace containing 77 pearls, four emeralds, a large diamond...
Most socialite of the Curtis children is his daughter Leona, wife of Webster Knight, Providence banker and onetime textile manufacturer. The elder Knight child is named for his grandfather. In the summer the Vice President has visited the Knights at their home near Newport, has been feted royally by local dowagers...
...luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech. It was broadcast over 48 stations but omitted from New York and Chicago...
...Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when she married her first husband, a Los Angeles professional...
...word went out that two of the three remaining Americans were soggily losing, that only Mrs. Leona Cheney, small & blonde from Los Angeles, was winning her match. This news did not rattle Chicago's Virginia Van Wie, 22, who first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game...