Word: fitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilson's boat: Hinckley, Taylor, Whitman, Fitz, Goddard, Brooks, Stiles, Brokaw, and Hollingsworth...
Tension. Kneeling before William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, on October 7, 1914, Joe Kennedy, Harvard '12, took as his wife Rose Fitzgerald, 22-year-old daughter of former Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald-known as "Honey Fitz" because he charmed voters by crooning Sweet Adeline...
Next he took as his aide Honey Fitz's secretary, Edward Moore. Eddie Moore, Irish as a clay pipe, was the first member of the family Kennedy founded, nurse, comforter, friend, stooge, package-bearer, adviser, who played games with Joe and the children, bought neckties and bonds for Joe, opened doors, wrote letters, investigated investments, saw to it Joe wore his rubbers...
...Fitz. Two years older than his employer, Mr. Fitz, as he is known to turf fans, has been around racetracks for over 50 years. Starting as a stable boy at Sheepshead Bay in 1885, he became a jockey soon afterward, rode on the Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy...
...Edinburgh court refused to deal with the divorce suit of the U. S.-born Duchess of Leinster. Reason: her husband, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...