Word: lusitania
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Engaged. George Vanderbilt, 20, co-heir to the $30,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, West Orange, N. J. socialite. From an African trip last spring Heir Vanderbilt brought back 5,000 snakes, 15,000 bugs, 10,000 birds, 15,000 ft. of cinema...
...which the U-boat sought to circumvent It was humane because it was the one remaining means which promised to get ; quick military decision at relatively small cost." But few U. S. citizens in 1913; could take this view. When 124 Americans were drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German sentiment blaze up in the violently pro-Ally Northeast spread all through the country...
...late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage. She was aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. She has fought for the right of peeresses to sit in the House of Lords. She scorns feminine frills, looks like Amy Lowell, regards idle home-women as a menace...
Previous to his visit to Widener there was a little stir among a few of the officials who couldn't remember whether Harry Elkins Widener had gone down with Lusitania or the Titanic...
...copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read: "Mrs. Vanderbilt." She bore six children: Brigadier General Cornelius; Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); Gladys (Countess Szechenyi); William Henry (died 1892); Alfred Gwynne, who died on the Lusitania; Reginald Claypoole (died...