Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, great-great-grandson of the Railroader-Commodore, part owner of an airline between Miami and Havana...
...program for the two-day stay includes on Monday morning the stated meeting of the Board of Overseers. Luncheon will be held at Vanderbilt Hall, the new dormitory of the Medical School, after which some new discoveries in medicine will be discussed by several members of the Medical School Faculty. The overseers will dine with President Lowell on Monday evening...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in an English accent and making a coy moue, said "That's for you, horrid man!" as she tossed a glass of champagne upon the front of Erskine Gwynne, foppish nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The tossing occurred in a Paris cabaret, where Erskine Gwynne and Peggy Joyce were amusing themselves with separate parties. Erskine Gwynne had written an article called "Peggy Hotsprings Choice, Five Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together...
...only son of the Due and Duchesse de Vendome et d'Alençon, nephew of King Albert of Belgium and cousin of Edward, Prince of Wales; to Miss Marguerite ("Peggy") Watson of Washington, D. C., sometime fiancée of Angier B. Duke and the late Reginald Vanderbilt; in London...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...