Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people snatched programs from his hand and pushed past him into the official opening of .the Second International Antiques Exposition. A well- mannered, dressy crowd, visiting the antique show seemed as definitely a part of the socialite calendar as the horse show, the opera, the flower show, or Newport's tennis week. Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from booth to booth smiling pleasantly at dealers, murmuring: "Nice bit of spode," "I question that settle," "Lovely chair, but the patina is gone." Enthusiasms were reserved for explosively greeting their friends. Inside the dealers' booths, elegant young gentlemen, patrician young ladies...
Married. Jane, daughter of Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; to one Harry Harris; six weeks ago under assumed names, again in a civil ceremony at Newport, Ky., again last week by a Catholic Priest in Cincinnati...
...largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
UNIVERSITY: A. L. Mason '32, of Newport, Rhode Island, will become manager in his Senior year...
...succeeded August Belmont as Chairman of the U. S. Jockey Club. Unlike those old ladies who feed truck horses lump sugar from paper bags in their purses, he is no sentimentalist; unlike Henry Bergh, he is a cosmopolite without being a freak. Now 83, he still summers at Newport. His stern, mustachioed countenance has changed little since the days when, a member of Strong. Sturgis & Co., he was president of the New York Stock Exchange, or those when his thoroughbreds raced at fashionable meets. A club-window face, it was often seen behind the Fifth Avenue panes of the Metropolitan...