Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, N. Y., seven bandits, masked with white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire...
...party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
...East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared he would never countenance his daughter...
...Embassy twice: from 1905 to 1907, as Second Secretary under Sir Henry M. Durand; from 1919 to 1920 as Councilor of the Embassy under Viscount Grey of Fallodon and Sir Auckland Geddes. A more personal tie to the U. S. is the fact that Ambassador Ronald has married two daughters of U. S. citizens. His first wife was Martha Cameron, daughter of onetime Senator J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. The present Lady Lindsay was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter of the late famed stockbroking Colgate Hoyt of Manhattan, and grandniece of General William Tecumseh ("Scourge of Georgia") Sherman...
...formal opening of the heralded Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 16). Invitations had been sent to many a socialite and artist. With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern...