Word: matilda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gleefully the Press printed each bit of circumstantial evidence, each fiery retort. But one important bit of Myrtle Sands's discovery, Mae West could not deny: the names of the bride's parents in the Milwaukee certificate-John West and Matilda Dilker-were indeed the names of the parents of America's Sweethot...
...York is said to be a critical town in its sophisticated way. The gentlemen of the press did not attack the play with any violence, they didn't damn it with faint praise, they just accepted it as the solution of the rather considerable problem of Aunt Matilda making her annual pilgrimage to the theatre. "The Distaff Side" remains that sort of play and since Boston seems to contain more Aunt Matildas than New York it should be liked in this cultural center...
Married. Ralph Isidor Straus, eldest son of President Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), nephew of U. S. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; and Matilda Bradford Day, Manhattan socialite; in Kidders-on-Cayuga Lake...
From Austrian Silesia, in 1754 and 1759, emigrated the Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz. Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this...
Died. Electa Matilda Curtis Ziegler, 91, philanthropist, widow of the late William Ziegler, founder-president of Royal Baking Powder Co., foster mother of President William Ziegler Jr. of Great Island Corp.; of old age; in Manhattan...