Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributing editor of TIME and a PT-boat skipper in the Pacific war, had been to a Mexican movie on which he was planning to do a story. Weeks's wife and two small sons were waiting for him in Merrick. Steeil, Miller, Weeks and twoscore others rode in the head car, the smoker, some reading the night's newspapers, most of them sunk in boredom, a few sunk in sleep...
...extremely lucky child. She was not only healthy and pretty, but certain to be rich. Her father was brother, partner and heir of Hollis Lyman Powers, a millionaire friend of Vanderbilts and Goulds, and director of the storied Grand Central Hotel. Mary lived in a Fifth Avenue mansion, rode behind gleaming carriage horses and had lovely clothes...
...lived through "wars and depressions and catastrophes." Some of the guests at his party could remember how, as a man of 39, he had left the concert stage to serve in the Austrian army in World War I. He had been severely wounded-"A whole troop of Russian Cossacks rode over me." Some could also remember, with embarrassment, how he had returned to a U.S. that had become bitterly hostile to "Hun" music and "Hun" musicians, and how he had turned hostility to homage with the simple beauty of his playing...
Douglas and the machine rode in together and old Ed lived up to his bargain. Says Douglas: "Ed Kelly gave me his word and he kept it. I was a free agent...
Friends of Bertie Holliday admired his taste in jewelry. It was natural enough; his business card read "Dealer in precious stones." He had a lavishly furnished flat in London and a country home on an island in the Thames at Old Windsor. Bertie rode to hounds, cruised the river in his yacht, and was a familiar figure at the nearby Ascot track. Some of the best people went to his cocktail parties...