Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago (a defunct organization then dedicated to modern ballet); for a summer in Europe as the only U. S. citizen ever with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer...
...Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of Porto Rico, received from King Bao-Dai of Annam. (French Indo-China) a gaudy bauble, the Order of Virtuous Wives...
Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared...
...president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from Oct. 13-Nov. 15, as compared to 53 last year...
Seven years after President Harper took office, a boy was born to William James Hutchins and his wife, in Brooklyn. William James Hutchins is now president of Little Berea College (Berea, Ky.). The son, who was named Robert Maynard Hutchins, now 30, is the young man who, called like William Rainey Harper from Yale, was inducted as President Harper's fourth successor at Chicago...