Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Jacob ("The Sec") Holman, 70, longtime secretary, later chairman of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No kin to Torch Singer Libby Holman, he was the stepfather of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw...
...over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers. Then the frost of suspicion and fear began to thaw. I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come to me for food. The fourth could never be induced to feed from the hand...
...floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw has long been a subscriber. Largest order handled by Romeike in a single month was that of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission to which it delivered 76,203 clippings since Jan. 1, 39,771 in February alone. At the minimum rate of 4?, the bill to publicity-loving Congressman...
Smith Ely Jelliffe, Manhattan neurologist, in 1907 proved Harry Kendall Thaw mentally deranged, kept the Pittsburgh socialite from electrocution for the shooting of Architect Stanford White. Madman Thaw declared himself bankrupt, but said to Dr. Jelliffe, "Stick along, I'll pay you when I'm released" (from the Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N. Y.). Last week Dr. Jelliffe, 66, sued free & sane Mr. Thaw, 61, for $10,000 back fees. Said U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe: "Doctor, you are in a tough spot. I would like to see you get your money. But the cause...