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...improved, system of drainage and a new roof covering on the squash courts are expected to prevent the flooding of the courts whenever a heavy snowfall occurs, followed by a thaw. In the past this condition has made several courts useless during a great part of the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming of Winter Activities Heralded by Repairs on Squash Courts, Gymnasium, and Big Tree Swimming Pool | 1/4/1924 | See Source »

...every one of them in Lloyd's List, the official bulletin. But as a general insurance firm Lloyd's is even more famous. In Britain it insures anything from the weather to eggs hatching in incubators. To Americans it is famous for having insured against Harry K. Thaw's conviction, for having insured a baseball team against losing a World's Series, for having issued policies to business men against the election of Henry Ford as President. It was even reported that U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels had insured the U. S. Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lloyd's | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw: "I was arrested. They raided the El Prinkipo Café in ' Cabaret Row,' Atlantic City, where I sing and dance. They seized considerable liquor. They held Alfred Macdonald and me as alleged proprietors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Aug. 6, 1923 | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Married. Consuelo Morgan, divorced wife of the Comte de Maupas du Juglart, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., acting chargé d'affaires of the American Embassy, at Ixelles, Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

Geraldine Farrar: " I leased a farm in New Hampshire from a half brother of Harry K. Thaw. It has an old colonial house and is not far from the sea. There I shall rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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