Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Lazlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and husband to the onetime Gladys Vanderbilt, arrived in Manhattan on the Acquitania. Ship-news reporters rushed up to him hoping for a felicitous utterance, since friends of Count Karolyi have credited the Hungarian Minister with inspiring the State Department's attitude toward the Karolyis, Count and Countess. The reporters blurted their questions. The Minister diplomatically replied: "The exclusion of that man is a matter for your State Department...
...Manhattan, 3,000 persons paid $1 each for the privilege of inspecting the onetime residence of William Kissam Vanderbilt, soon to be demolished. A cinema, an orchestra, stars from the Metropolitan Opera Company, provided diversion for those who wished to sit in the great oak-beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed...
...eyes had surely been opened to the condition of things in Tennessee-a wildwood state, populated by bearded illiterates whose ears still rumble with echoes of the shooting at Bull Run, whose Bible is a shotgun, whose primer is a bottle and who believe in Santa Claus. Last week Vanderbilt University (in Nashville) made an announcement which somewhat corrected this impression. Trustees and alumni, having completed their semicentennial celebration, started a nationwide drive to raise $4,000,000 for the department of science. Said Chancellor James H. Kirkland: "Vanderbilt's answer to the episode at Dayton is the building...
Grantland Rice is well-known to sport followers through his daily column, "The Sport light." He played football, basketball, and baseball when a student at Vanderbilt, and since then has gained a high place among sport critics. The All-American eleven which appears in Collier's Magazine annually and was formerly picked by the late Walter Camp, will hereafter be chosen by Mr. Ricer...