Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...
...ranee was Sylvia, Lady Brooke, whose title is H. H. Ranee of Sarawak-a mountainous little Borneo state which her husband's family has ruled for three generations. Because she is writing a book about Sarawak, has published her memoirs, the ranee could qualify as an author among such full-time professionals as Stuart Chase and Frederick Lewis Allen, such part-time writers as Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Astronomer Harlow Shapley, all of whom attended the Fair. Since no fine horizontal line was drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary...
Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...
...LONG WAY HOME-Sylvia Chatfield Bates - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Lengthy odyssey of a beautiful upState New York old maid, whose luck, thanks to a pioneer inheritance of pagan stamina, turns into an old maid's dream when...
Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor...