Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of the Saturday Evening Post there is a story about, the 'Marquis of Benham' who has an unmarried sister by the name of 'Lady Stanwick' and a daughter entitled 'the Honourable Alicia...
...Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia...
Died. William Elmer Harmon ("Jede-diah Tingle"), 66, famed philanthropist and installment-realtor; in Southport, Conn. ; after a long illness. Overtly, studiously, he gave money through his Harmon Foundation ; anonymously, capriciously, he gave under the name Jedediah Tingle...
Some thirty years ago, the widow Angeline Philippe looked hard at the small boy who stood beside her. She and her husband had named him Louis. By itself, Louis was perhaps the commonest name in all Paris, but Louis Philippe smacked of kingship. With such a name, a young Parisian should go far. It was unfortunate that she had scarcely enough money to clothe or feed...
Alluringly foreign are the names of precious unguents and their makers. But deep hidden under the black-bakelite boudoir jars of Terri's "Exquisite Face Powder" one may find the name of Terence Ryan, its maker. And famed Madame Helena Rubinstein is also called Mrs. Edward Titus. Laden with scents and sounds of the Orient, her most esoteric triumphs reach Manhattan from no more distant point than her factory on Long Island...