Word: bluebloods
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Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...
...wealth and roundly repudiating him, falls overboard, has to be rescued- by Margot, now properly disgusted. Harvey's eyes are opened, etc., etc. but Margot has left and it is three days before he finds her. Embrace, affiancement, the revealing of Faulkner as Margot's blueblood uncle and a doubly famous author under two pseudonyms, the acceptance by Faulkner's publisher friend of Harvey's diary of these events as a new, greater novel- all this is the work of moments. Author Hatch writes in a cheery, bourgeois fashion, helps a hot night pass painlessly...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
...fortune, and possessor of nearly $400,000 in his own right, to Miss Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of one George Jones, New Rochelle (N.Y.), cabman. The New Rochelle Standard-Star was quick to allege Father-in-law Jones to be a Negro. Said Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets: "BLUEBLOOD WEDS COLORED GIRL," "SOCIETY STUNNED," "COLOR LINE FOR KIP'S BRIDE." Later the more sober dailies investigated, definitely established that Mr. Jones, a onetime British subject, had described himself as "colored" in applying for U.S. citizenship...