Word: sculptress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with his picture, joined him first as mistress, then as wife. She was obliged, for lack of money, to use precious but musty draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There followed divorce, his marriage...
...Harry Payne Whitney (nee Gertrude Vanderbilt), sculptress, returned to Manhattan on the storm-battered Paris, after working for two months on a statue of Christopher Columbus, 100 feet high, for the Port of Palos, Spain...
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman...
Born. A daughter, to Mr. & Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller (Flora Whitney) of Roslyn, L. I. The child is granddaughter of Harry Payne Whitney, financier & sportsman, and Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, heiress-sculptress...
...claim him for its own). And it is not as a wanderlusty siren that she presents herself, but as the brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual curiosity where goody-goodies fear to tread. With the highly respectable necessity of supporting her two children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step that of a defiant child rather than a decisive man. She made his first sitting the last because his conduct was "bestial," "unwritable...