Word: matilda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hickingbotham Jr., onetime Rhodes Scholar; in Oakland, Calif. Married, Princess Alexandrine Louise Caroline Matilda Dagmar of Denmark, 22, niece of King Christian X; and Count Luitpold Alfred Frederic Charles zu Castell-Castell, 32, of Munich; in Copenhagen. Married. Francis Townsend Hunter, 42, oldtime U. S. Davis Cup tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan...
Asked if she were really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess who married Paul Wilson in West Newton, Mass. in 1910, Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) laid a long-lived rumor by declaring that her ancestors were all Protestants, had settled in New England before 1680, that her name had always been Frances Perkins, that "this appeal to racial prejudice and the attempt at political propaganda by unworthy innuendo must be repugnant to all honorable men and women." Said she: "There are no Jews in my ancestry. If I were a Jew, I would make...
Henry, Stephen, Matilda...
...from sheep. In an hour, Jekal sat up, fingered the adhesive tape on his belly, stared about vacantly. In a day or two the creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed Mrs. Cooper last week, headlines ran NO MORE FIREBALLS FOR WITCH SLAYER...