Word: milburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep her girls well scattered geographically, taking only the cream of the applicants from Chicago, San Francisco...
...without parallel. The new junior champions-who went undefeated through 1927, won the Meadowbrook and Hempstead Cups last year and this year defeated Winston Guest's freebooters for the Westbury Cup-are all graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot, to learn...
...enough it was, thought Mrs. Irene Smith, Livingston, N. J., mother of seven, to be divorced for adultery. But when her onetime husband, a Milburn, N. J., policeman, refused to support her youngest child because he believed the divorce corespondent, one August Schildknecht, was its father, Mrs. Smith protested...
Vice President Dawes was master of ceremonies. Senate Pages Milburn McCarty Jr. of Eastland, Tex., and John Gordon Logan, carried the two shiny mahogany boxes in which reposed the solemn electoral certificates. Page McCarty is a squint-eyed little boy with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...
Engaged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., since the retirement of Devereux Milburn most famed of U. S. poloists, Wartime flyer who was shot down behind German lines and later escaped from Germany, socially prominent resident of Long Island & Aiken, S. C.; to Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, grandniece of Andrew William Mellon, relict of Alexander Laughlin Jr., late President of the Central Tube Co. of Pittsburgh. On June 12, 1926, Mr. Laughlin had an appointment with his dentist, said goodbye to Mrs. Laughlin. She next heard that he had died while under the dentist's anesthetic...