Word: nee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riverside Country Clubhouse (Riverside, 111.). Entered to them a dusky-haired, comely young woman choking back a smile. The gathering chuckled, cackled, congratulated the young woman, then stood quiet while a chairwoman gave her a tall, slender silver cup. That night the young woman, Mrs. Silvan L. Reinhart (nee Elaine Rosenthal), of Hubbard Woods, Ill., discussed with her husband, "Spider" Reinhart, onetime Yale end, the ups, downs, ins and outs whereby she had successfully defended her Women's Western Golf Championship, through rain and wind, against a field of 81, including the redoubtable Mrs. Lee Mida of Chicago...
...even the blithest comedy, the sorriest tragedy, or the strangest history, there comes a time when the last line is spoken and the heavy curtain from above descends unalterably. So it was at Clean, Scotland, that Death came to Mary Elizabeth Haldane, nee Sanderson. She had celebrated her 100th birthday but recently (TIME, May 4, EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great...
...Harding, nee Florence Kling, born Aug. 15, 1860, daughter of Amos Kling, wealthy real-estate owner of Marion, married Marshall Eugene De Wolfe of the same place. They had one son, Marshall Jr. The marriage was unhappy and Mrs. De Wolfe obtained a divorce, resumed her maiden name, returned to live with her father. Mr. De Wolfe died; and. contrary to the wishes of her father, she married Warren G. Harding, struggling journalist. Her father disowned her; but, some years later, there was a reconciliation. Her son Marshall Jr. married and later died, leaving a widow and two children...
...William McMillen Adams, nee Davis, has taken her place in her father's battle line. Thousands of letters have been sent out over her signature, it is reported. She was told that 3,700,000 young women would cast their first ballot this fall, and she murmured...
Born. To the Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, nee Millicent Rogers, daughter of Henry H. Rogers of Manhattan, a son (eight pounds); in Manhattan...