Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odium, Hilton paid out $7,400,000 for New York's stately old Plaza, which was as deeply encrusted with stately tradition as it was with the grime of years. The Plaza's first guest in 1907 (at $30,000 a year) had been Alfred G. Vanderbilt, and since then the hotel's quiet, Old World atmosphere had made it a favorite of Manhattan's lorgnette & limousine set. One longtime Plaza guest was so frightened at the thought of a breezy Westerner taking over that she dashed off a letter to Hilton which began : "Dear...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt got around to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera (see Music) even though it meant her first public appearance in a wheelchair. When 30 photographers swooped down on her and let go with flashbulbs, she brandished her cane and cried: "I ought to take this to you." Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation, who escorted Mrs. Vanderbilt to the opening, said she had decided to attend only after he told her that Queen Mary, who recently gave him an audience in England, had remarked sadly that "so few were left to uphold tradition...
...tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII as a "clear testimony of the British people in support of Christian marriage and Christian moral ideals...
Lionel Hall battled Yale's Vanderbilt Hall to a scoreless tie in the fight for the Freshman Intramural Touch Football Championship at New Haven Saturday morning...
Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law, will leave Harvard at the end of the present academic year for a position as professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Ray Forester, Dean of the Vanderbilt Law School, announced yesterday...