Word: beauteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before going off to War, Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they...
...appearance of his school-days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader...
...married and lives in Manhattan's Ritz Tower. When he drives his special-bodied Cadillac to the American office every traffic cop grins at him gratefully, and he stops often to pass the time of day. His license plates bear the simple legend 1. The car of his beauteous young wife, San Francisco's one-time debutante Alma Walker, has the license number 2. Hearst Jr. has not forgotten his Hollywood friends; Cinemactors Norman Kerry and Charles Farrell are among his intimates. With Songwriter Irving Berlin, Lawyer Richard Knight and other conspicuous Manhattanites, he nightclubs in moderation up and down...
Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...