Word: palm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maureen Orcutt: the Florida golf championship for women; beating Helen Hicks, with a birdie 3, on the 19th hole of the final, at Palm Beach. ¶ Sonia Henje: the world's figure skating championship for women: at Montreal. A week earlier one D. B. Cruikshank, president of an Ottawa skating club which had invited Miss Henje to give an exhibition, accused her large, red-faced father of demanding an exorbitant amount of money for expenses. Said he: "We flatly refused to become a party to what we believed was a straight hold-up on the part of ... an amateur...
...Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent years he has designed the Ziegfeld Theatre, Palm Beach palazzi for Edward Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile...
...sects. Italy's troublesome Senussites are a rambunctious Arab sect founded by Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, who was born in Algeria with an urge to militant reform. He ordered his two sons to jump off a palm tree to decide which should succeed...
...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...
Heartwarming to Mrs. Fortescue were the messages of sympathy and admiration she received from her old friends in Society ? Mrs. Cornelius Bliss, Mrs. Breckinridge Long, Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. Before leaving to open her Palm Beach season, Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury of Philadelphia wired...