Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning...
Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester...
...when the U. S. Senate finally denies Senator-suspect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania his seat, alert, greyhaired, busy-buzzing Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
Famed European players, Alexander Moissi, Lili Darvas, etc., seemed good in their parts, but never comparable to the sum of the whole. The wriggling darting Puck of Wladimir Sokolov was a vivid individual contribution. Rosamond Pinchot, discovered as an actress by Max Reinhardt for The Miracle, is the single native per former with a speaking part. She, like the rest, talks German...