Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
...just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents. Mrs. Spencer also doubted the young man's ability to furnish his bride with 365 new dresses a year, since Mary Belle reputedly "won't wear the same dress twice...
Vexed at such snubs, Mr. & Mrs. Wright Sr. vowed that their son should remain married. Daughter Mary Belle, called in the Press "The Do-As-You-Please Bride," described her marriage as "simply scrumptious." "I don't care if Mamma is a darn good lawyer," declared Mary Belle, "Edward and I will hire a lawyer...
...call it off. Brown offered to sell the track to Sportsman Hertz for $2,500,000 if he could raise the money in 24 hours. It took Mr. Hertz just 20 minutes to extract the $2,500,000 from a group of civic-minded Chicagoans like Warren Wright, Otto Lehmann, Silas Strawn, Leonard Florsheim, Charles A. McCulloch...
HAMILTON W. WRIGHT Hempstead...