Word: christiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married-Pauline Louise du Pont, 19, daughter of General Motors Director Henry Francis du Pont, second cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; to Alfred C. Harrison III, 27, Manhattan lawyer; in Christiana Hundred...
Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, and Ethel du Pont, 21; at Christiana Hundred...
...tiny Christ Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere...
...Summit all up. . . . Oh Christiana, Stem it all. . . . Woodstock if I could but it Snow use, skiing stinkin...
...traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there forgotten until...