Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along with a traveling carnival. Amelia, as ticket-collector in shabby velvet, attains a certain dreary happiness...
...good thing we did not gratify Dr. Butler's aspirations, or rather jack-aspirations, and nominate him for President. He apparently would not uphold the Constitution and would not enforce the law. . . . We should remember that Dr. Nicholas Money Butler was the campaign collector for the not too sweet-smelling Harding Administration and that he may be following some of his oil friends into the Tammany-cratic party. Dr. Butler was not called the little butler of the rich for nothing. On the whole it would seem that Dr. Butler and Mr. Raskob are imposing personalities, but only...
Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...
...warming up to flay their U. S. divorce clients and especially those U.S. lawyers who act in Paris as inter-mediaires between would-be-divorcees and the French avocats who alone may argue cases before the Paris Bar. Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port of New York, Benjamin H. Conner, President of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and a half dozen more expatriate U. S. lawyers as especial objects of his wrath. As a first and most vital precaution Registrar Chipot of the Civil Court was placed on trial, last...
...Died. Thomas Barlow Walker, 88, lumberman, art collector, philanthropist; of old age; in Minneapolis. Once a peddler of grindstones to farmers, he was recently said to have a fortune of $100,000,000, much of which he gave to the city of Minneapolis (The Walker Art Galleries, the Public Library, etc.) and to various charities...