Word: stamford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...
Marriage Disclosed. Homer Stillé Cummings of Stamford, Conn., onetime (1919-20) Democratic National Committee Chairman, twotime (1920, 1924) candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, twice divorced; to a Miss Cecelia Waterbury of Stamford; five months ago at Stamford...
Married. Eleanora Ambrose Maurice, 27, widow and partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...
...Englishmen registered times and distances in their Stamford Bridge meet which were disappointing, and below expectations. Nevertheless Sartain of Cambridge broad jumped 22 feet, 8 1-2 inches and his team mate R. W. Evans was but two inches short of the mark. Green of Cambridge ran the mile in 4 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds, and Guttteridge of Cambridge was clocked in 1 minute, 57 1-5 seconds for the half mile. J. M. Pumphrey of Oxford ran three miles in 14 minutes, 59 seconds, while F. W. Teitcherine of Cambridge was just over 59 seconds for the quarter...
Instantly cleared of suspicion was the King's private secretary, Baron Stamford-ham, courtly letter-writer and precise putterer, characterized by Queen Victoria as "a model of tact and diplomacy...