Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Georgetown, S. C. and brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them. For the nearby Blue Earth Post they collaborated on The Post Chaise column, which Mr. Eisele carried on when his wife branched out in the Fairmont paper...
LADY ELIZABETH SCHARNBERG Newport...
...hospital fair, John Jacob Astor III was voted the handsomest man in Newport...
Forty-three sturdy little sailboats stood out of Newport, R. I. last week, headed southeast across 635 miles of open sea for Bermuda. The biggest fleet ever entering an ocean race, the 43 sloops, schooners, yawls, ketches included many a new craft, many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because...
Last year Representatives were thoroughly embarrassed when Mr. & Mrs. Everett Parker of Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...