Word: shere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wyckoff. Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which she had built up from 1,500 to 73,000 circulation...
...etchings by Seymour Haden, the "Shere Mill Pond" and "Sunset in Ireland" are particularly beautiful impressions of favorite plates of this famous English surgeon-artist...