Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done in the U. S.," on the estate of George W. Vanderbilt near Asheville, N. C. The same year he opened an office in New York as consulting forester...
...days when the late Reginald Vanderbilt, as a rakish Yale student, entertained the citizens of New Haven with nocturnal thunderings from his red racing car, his classmates remembered with respect a Harvard athlete who, a few years before, had stormed their fort with every crimson team-one Wrenn, Robert. He had played on the baseball nine; he had been a crack hockey forward; a resolute and heady quarterback-beyond question as good an all-around athlete as had attended any eastern college for perhaps a generation. His friends lost money to him at golf. Before Reginald Vanderbilt had left college...
...trainer's orders, the squad was forced to scorn taxicabs and street cars last night and walked the eight blocks from the station to the Hotel Vanderbilt...
...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...
Married. Mrs. Edith Dresser Vanderbilt, 51, widow of George Washington Vanderbilt, to wealthy, aristocratic Peter Goelet Gerry, 46, senior U. S. Senator from Rhode Island. She was given in marriage in London by the Hon. John F. A. Cecil, husband of her daughter Cornelia...