Word: lusitania
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...This bombing may prove to have the same political effect as the torpedoing of the Lusitania, particularly in regard to the United States, whose attitude on an oil embargo may be decisive for the Italians...
France also thought of the Lusitania. The Commission on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies sent a message of sympathy to the Swedish Ambassador that mentioned specifically "the unforgettable precedent of the Lusitania...
...against many a threatening windmill, but never faltered. She founded a Montessori school at Provincetown, where she spent her summers when she could. She went to Europe to report the 1915 International Congress of Women in Amsterdam. She ventured through War-time Germany just after the sinking of the Lusitania. She toured the French devastated areas to find out how the civilians were making out. She got home to find her husband dying of cancer...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 20, big game hunter, heir to half the $30,000,000 fortune left by his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, 22, expert golfer, horsewoman and rifle shot; at "Broadacre," her parents' estate near West Orange...
...been registered with The Jockey Club. Properly speaking, the Vanderbilt Stables came into existence in 1934. The autumn before. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt celebrated his coming of age with a party at Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit by quarters every four years. From his mother, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Emerson (Bromo Seltzer) of Baltimore, twice married since his father's death, he received the string of horses...