Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Barney Ershowsky offered his friend A. H. Neurowich $50,000 for Mrs. Neurowich and agreed to give him Mrs. Ershowsky in the bargain. A process-server prevented the deal...
Died. Samuel Clay Hildreth, 63, famed oldtime turfman; in Manhattan; after an operation to correct intestinal disorders...
Died. Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., 77, son of the U. S. President; at Sandberg Lodge, near Los Angeles, Calif.; of heart failure. A Harvard graduate (1874), for a short time his father's secretary at the White House, he turned to law in Manhattan, practiced there 17 years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
...spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon, playing the little prince. After being engaged for two years to Joan Crawford, whom his father and stepmother, Mary Pickford, were rumored not to like much, he married her last spring in Manhattan. Some of his pictures : A Woman of Affairs, The Barker, Fast Life...