Word: towson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...times and then her identity becomes known and we have to rush off somewhere else. When word gets out that she's in town it's like telling gangsters, "Here's a lot of money; come and get it.' "A sheriff's jury in Towson, Md. decided that Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, now in a Baltimore hospital, was "a lunatic without lucid intervals, so that he is not capable of the government of himself or the management of his estate." A radio actor named Drexel Biddle Steele said...
...Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose an opportunity to inculcate good old-fashioned morality, embodying principles of decency and respect for individual personality and clean-mindedness." Testified one of her former pupils: "Miss Hannah always told me never to swear or drink or let a boy touch...
...morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with...