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...Edmund Gros. head of the American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
...announcement of the decade, that of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough. (When Consuelo wanted an annulment in 1927, her mother frankly admitted coercion.) Next Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground, "no art or trade is as taxing in mental resource...
...attended the San Francisco convention of the National Woman's Party. She went abroad to see Christabel Pankhurst, who would gladly break an umbrella over a constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt...
...junior varsity hockey team will meet Governor Dummer Academy at the Boston Garden at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson team has defeated Belmont Hill 8-0 and Northeastern...
...freshman six will face Exeter at the Boston Garden at 4.15 o'clock after the Jayvee game. It has won the victories over Belmont Hill School and Belmont High...