Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will this "Madame," or "Missus," as they call her, whose character is definite almost to the point of eccentricity, receive her cook's daughter as her son's wife? Perhaps the fact that the son's firmness matches the mother's is responsible for her approval. Perhaps she is simply a realist. In any case, she takes Lena Wilson to Manhattan with her for a winter of theatres, shopping and "polish" in general. Lena goes to the Princeton commencement and then the scene is set for a wedding at Grande Anse...
...vivid "copy." There was a double divorce action which began in 1922 and was not settled until 1924. That died down peacefully. Banker James A. Stillman and his gypsyesque wife are dignified friends though they live apart mostly. But they will be seen together at the wedding of their son and Lena Wilson. Having decided it is a possible thing, they will put the wedding through in the best of style, a thoroughbred affair. Will newspaper editors send representatives to cover such an affair? Certainly yes; as surely as a hungry trout will rise to a bright...
...this Colonel Green? He is Edward Rowland Robinson Green, 59, only son of the late Hetty Green, undoubtedly the richest and most-talked-about woman in the U. S. in her day or anyone's day. From her, Colonel Green inherited some $175,000,000. He used to be in the railroad business; but now he is retired, devotes most of his time and part of his fortune to a powerful radio station and experimental laboratory on his estate at South Dartmouth. He is glad to have scientists come there to work. As early as 1924, he succeeded in transmitting...
Married. James A Stillman Jr., 22, of Manhattan, son of James A. Stillman, onetime president of the national City Bank, Manhattan, to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, of La Tuque, Quebec; at his parents' summer home, Grande Anse, Quebec...
...grandson of Poet Tennyson and heir of the present Baron Tennyson; from the onetime Clarissa Madeline Georgina Felicity Tennant, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith ("Margot"); at London. The suit was not contested by Mrs. Tennyson. Her husband named as corespondent James Montgomery Beck Jr., of London, son of the onetime Solicitor General...