Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress, in a justice of the peace's dingy back office...
Jones took Selina to the Midwestern college where he taught her chemistry. There she learned from a doctor that it would be dangerous for her to conceive a child. She was cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these...
Engaged. Gilbert Colgate Jr. of Manhattan, son of the cosmetics tycoon; and Miss Nina Haven King, Manhattan socialite...
Born. To TIME Circulation Manager & Mrs. Roy E. Larson; a daughter, in Manhattan. Weight: 5½ Ib. Name: Margot Anne...
Reported Engaged. Charles Paddock, onetime "fastest human" (sprints); and Madeline Lubetty of Manhattan, cinemactress (Cardigan), legitimactress (The Fool...