Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...
...Paris in 1840, but spent his boyhood in Aix. He was the son of an Italian engineer and a rugged French country maid. His father had a scheme to water the dried-up fountains of Aix. But he died in the midst of this first promising project and his wife and heir were legally deprived of financial reward. Up to Paris went young Zola, his imagination glittering with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity...
Died. Mrs. Helen Woodford Ruth, 31, onetime Boston waitress; estranged wife of famed Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth by burning and asphyxiation in a fire at the house of Dr. Edward H. Kinder, dentist, in Watertown, Mass. The Ruths were married in 1914, separated in 1925. For a year and a half Mrs. Ruth had lived in Watertown as Mrs. Kinder...
Died. Mrs. Josephine Winslow Carlton, wife of Western Union President Newcomb Carlton of Manhattan, onetime Buffalo socialite; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...