Word: sigourney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd the window seat and fender rail of his booklined study. "Old Boys" * fondly recall his habit of snorting humorously through his nose, his ceaseless jiggling of his Phi Beta Kappa key. Of his five sons, most spectacular is the second-eldest, Sigourney Thayer, World War aviator, Paris habitue, theatre tyro, husband of Emily Davies Vanderbilt...
...Married. Sigourney Thayer of Manhattan, spasmodic theatrical producer, Wartime aviator, Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...
...Chestnut Hill, Mass. Superior headwork enabled Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, to tire her younger opponent early in the match; to win the championship, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. A few minutes later Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery resounded as the hardy matron, paired with G. Peabody Gardner Jr., walked forth for a third joust-this time the finals of the mixed doubles...
...nervous stamina that has made Mrs. Mallory six times champion of the U. S. With the loss oi only three points, she won the next three games, the match, the Rhode Island championship. Miss Mary K. Browne and Miss Goss defeated Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and Miss Edith Sigourney for the doubles titles, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Mrs. Jessup and W. W. Ingraham took the mixed doubles...
Women. Captain, Mrs. George Wightman of Brookline, Mass,; Helen Wills of Berkeley, Calif., national champion; Eleanor Goss of Manhattan, third ranking player; Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup of Wilmington, Del. Alternates: Lilian Scharman of Brooklyn; Leslie Bancroft and Edith Sigourney of Boston...