Word: mcleans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard affirmative team, which will meet the Yale negative at Cambridge, is composed of James J. Fuld '37, Oscar M. Lurie '35, and Powers McLean '35. Another group of Harvard men consisting of Harold H. Freedlander '35, Victor H. Kramer '35, and Irving R. Murray '36 will uphold the negative side of the question against another Yale team at New Haven...
...Evelyn Walsh McLean, the same Mrs. McLean who has supplied nearly three decades of Washington society with conversation, who has owned the great Hope diamond for 25 years, whose onetime husband once owned the Washington Post, whose collection of jewels is world-famed, who was swindled out of $100,000 by the notorious Gaston B. Means in an effort to recover the Lindbergh baby...
When other newsmen arrived, Mrs. McLean was graciously willing to talk. Yes, she had the Hope diamond with her. In fact she was at that very moment wearing it around her neck. She was also wearing four diamond bracelets on her right wrist, four more on her left, a handful of solitaire rings, and she carried a diamond-chained handbag and a diamond-studded cigaret case. She had just been to Russia, she said, to give Moscow a thrill...
...About the bad luck of the Hope diamond?" rattled on Mrs. McLean. "Well, it has never brought me bad luck. I think my life is charmed in that respect. But I had a friend on the Carinthia, the ship in which I made the North Cape cruise, and he held the diamond in his pocket for two hours and now I understand he's lying at death's door...
...that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope diamond. Said Mrs. McLean: "Of course it's the real Hope diamond." Next night a mile away Mrs- Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor...