Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Plains, N. Y., Florence Damm, 21; Helen Damm, 16; Margaret Agnes Damm, 15; Jeannette and Gertrude Damm (twins), 14, the famed Damm sisters of Yonkers, N. Y., begged and obtained permission from a county judge to change their surname, testifying that it brought them ridicule and embarrassment, retarding their social life. Mrs. Damm, their mother, was proved dead; Damm, their father, was "missing." After due deliberation the Damm sisters had elected to be-and were when they left court-Gormans, one and all, in honor of a favorite uncle...
...late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor in a futile...
...Engaged. Margaret Lois Fiske, daughter of Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; to Martin Edwin Walker 3rd, of Wilmington...
Grease, grease, grease. First a coat of lanolin, an eighth of an inch thick, then a coat of heavy grease. Gertrude Ederle, standing bare in the Hotel Sirene, Cape Gris Nez, France, shivered slightly and pressed her legs together. "Gee whiz, let's get started." Her sister, Margaret, dipped her hands once more in the grease pail. "Put your bathing suit on," she directed over her shoulder. More grease was applied to the strong stumpy body, clad now in a thin racing suit, cut away deeply under the arms. Gertrude Ederle (pronounced "Ed-er-ly") ran across the beach...
...Welcomed tolerantly Miss Margaret ("Our Maggie") Bondfield, onetime chairman of the Trades Union Congress when she was returned to the House of Commons by 18,866 Wallsend Laborite votes, as against 9,839 polled for a Conservative and 4,000 for a Liberal opponent...