Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jeweled saddles and other gorgeous presents. In return Menelik made him Duke of Harrar and Hawash, a duchy of 1,600,000 acres in extent. But if he had plans to exploit Abyssinia, they came to naught. He returned to the U. S. and had a home at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., still maintaining his interests in Mexico. In 1903 he had married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood. His death leaves few men living who have played so gaily, freely for the stakes...
...Bryan as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. Besides her diplomatic antecedents, Mrs. Lansing is at home in such a gathering because of her mastery of both Castilian and South American Spanish, not to mention French. She is a woman of affairs, a graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary and Smith College, a former Director of the Y. W. C. A., a member of the D. A. R. But she is hardly typical as a woman of affairs-she keeps house herself, does her own marketing and has a face "that seems to have been...
...private life " Miss McKinley," daughter of Abner McKinley, is the wife of Dr. H. L. Baer of Mount Vernon, N. Y. For years she was soloist of the Church of the Ascension there, taking also an active part in civic and War work. Since an opening in San Francisco several years ago, she has crossed the continent five times in vaudeville...
...Irene Castle Treman: "Eighty-two residents of Fort Worth, Tex., signed a petition to have the name of Fort Worth's widest street changed from ' Vernon Castle Boulevard' back to ' Boulevard,' its original name. My former husband was killed at Fort Worth in an airplane crash February...
Clarence Hackney of Atlantic City, highly stimulated by that northern air, finished five strokes ahead of Tom Kerrigan of Mount Vernon, N. Y., runner-up last year to Al Watrous of Radford, Mich, (who did not compete this year...