Word: lusitania
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...Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...
Divorced. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan and cosmopolite; by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, thrice-married turf-woman, divorced wife of Dr. Smith Hollis McKim of Baltimore (1911), widow of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who lost his life on the Lusitania; in Reno, Nev., Mr. Baker was said to be contemplating marriage to Mrs. Delphine I. Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late autotycoon Horace E. Dodge, divorced two weeks ago from James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker...
...since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter...
...Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model-Melville E. Stone III, 22, grandson of the onetime general manager of the Associated Press, son of the late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds for Lee, Higginson & Co. of Chicago. No doubt, his mail will soon be choked with sentimental gush from shop girls, waitresses, home girls, hoydens; with offers of vaudeville and cinema contracts...
...Lusitania. "The German reply . . . contained a statement to the effect that a great liner had no right to sink so quickly...