Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true...
...Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love, she tried to kill herself by drinking poison. When she met rich U. S. Senator William Sharon, "King of the Comstock Lode," she was glad she had failed. He owned two of San Francisco's hotels, the Grand and the Palace, and shortly installed Sarah Althea in the Grand while he stayed at the Palace. There was a cross-street bridge...
Bills for the Philadelphia Ballet are paid by Catherine's rich husband Philip Leidy. General opinion was that the Sleeping Beauty cost him $10,000. Mr. Leidy, who loves ballet as much as the law he practices, first met Catherine Littlefield when she was dancing for the Philadelphia Grand Opera which his mother supported. Nobody knows how much their European tour will cost next summer. Miss Littlefield will take her troupe to Paris, Brussels, The Hague and London. She boasts that hers is the first U. S. ballet to venture into Europe...
With quieter eloquence but no less feeling than Senator George Graham Vest displayed in his famed "Tribute to a Dog," Mrs. Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, rich and gracious wife of Remington Arms Co.'s board chairman, declared last week on receiving the Chappel Foundation Plaque for signal devotion to dogdom...
...After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich Jew, and settled down to be the gracious lady nature had intended her to be. Grace, left at home in Silver Bow, caught Louise's old beau on the rebound, married him and became the most respectable matron in town. She had her domestic troubles, too, but she managed...