Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
...Mother Margaret Semple, Superior of the Convent at Cozeacan, Mexico, who testified before the Committee, stated that when she left Mexico Ambassador Sheffield suggested that upon reaching the U. S. she "talk loudly and at length" about her experiences. She added: "He knew I would do it and I knew he was not at liberty publicly to tell all he knew...
...military cemetery at West Point was laid to rest last week Margaret Corbin, alias "Sergeant" Molly Pitcher. A delegation from the Daughters of the American Revolution attended the ceremony. For on Nov. 16, 1776, Sergeant Molly's husband, a gunner, was wounded in the battle of Fort Washington and she served his gun until wounded* by three grapeshot. Until last week she rested in a snug grave on J. P. Morgan's estate at Highland Falls...
Engaged. Miss Margaret L. Du Pont, second daughter of Irenee Du Pont, President of the famed chemical firm of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to one Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, youthful chemical engineer. Because he plays the cello and she the violin, sentimental pressmen declared: "Music drew them together...
Divorced. For the fourth time, "Peggy Hopkins Joyce" (Margaret Upton), famed successive wife of Everett Archer (Denver), Sherbourne Hopkins Jr. (Washington), J. Stanley Joyce (Chicago), and Count Gosta Morner (Stockholm and Manhattan); from Count Morner, at Paris, secretly...