Word: livingston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic though Manhattan usually is, the Phelps-Pratt contest was not wholly academic. The seat in Congress which each hoped to win is held at present by one William Cohen, shrewd Tammanyite, but formerly it belonged to Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...
Married. Philip Grandin Strong, son of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; to Emma Thompson Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Livingston Smith of New York and Ballston Spa; at Ballston...
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., 19, junior at Princeton, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...
Wheel of Chance. Richard Barthelmess plays twin brothers: one is an able district attorney; the other is an unfortunate youth on trial for the murder of his mistress. The outcome of the trial shall remain a secret in these pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette...
...speculator, a certain Dr. Fred Puleston* is violently convinced of fraud. In righteous indignation he marshals evidence to prove "that bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were...