Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Silver. In Cleveland, doctors ministered to Mrs. Helen Sholtes, who had been shot in both legs by husband Andrew while they were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary...
...elaborate side. In the '20s, he and Elsa Maxwell hornswoggled U.S. society in Paris into believing in the existence of a fictitious wealthy couple from Oklahoma named Fitch, who were "doing" the Continent. They planted newspaper stories about the Fitches, and even concocted an art exhibition by Mrs. Fitch, for which Jean Cocteau and others forged paintings. The night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive, and on his arm was a stout, middle-aged lady (recruited from a circus...
...Rock Bros." is a blend of the Rockefellers' own brand of business acumen and Baptist ethics. Born to be rich, but bred to be philanthropists, the sons & daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.-John D. III, 42; Nelson, 40; Laurance, 38; Winthrop, 36; David, 33; and Mrs. Irving Pardee, 45-worry over where their money will do the greatest good, and still bring a reasonable return...
...Died. Mrs. Flora Drummond, 70, militant British suffragette who served nine prison sentences during her campaign to get votes for women; in Carradale, Scotland. "General" Drummond led showy demonstrations while mounted on a white horse, once chained herself in front of 10 Downing St., once tried to wrap up two of her colleagues and mail them by parcel post to the Prime Minister...
...steamer for Florida and ends after his 1935 vacation in Belgium. His notations are casual and apparently aimless: he notes the appearance of a handsome Jewess on the ship, the drab, suburban-New Jersey-type architecture of parts of Florida. He comments on book reviewers and publishers, Mrs. Roosevelt, Anthony Adverse, Shakespeare and the prose of subway advertisements. Someone told him that certain South Sea Islanders permitted an unmarried girl to bring a boy home for the night "as freely as an American girl could bring one home for lunch, and a different one each night, if she liked." Nock...