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Word: cornelius (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heartwarming to Mrs. Fortescue were the messages of sympathy and admiration she received from her old friends in Society ? Mrs. Cornelius Bliss, Mrs. Breckinridge Long, Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. Before leaving to open her Palm Beach season, Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury of Philadelphia wired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Murder in Paradise, Cont'd | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...last week's Liberty appeared an article by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., eccentric chatterbox of the family, stating that "half of society has ceased to splurge because of depleted income; while the other half, with as much money as ever, is afraid to cut capers. . . . Several of my friends placed 'sell short' orders with their brokers ten days before the great market crash. And, while uninformed investors were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Birthdays. Faith, Hope and Charity Jenkins (112); Frank Billings Kellogg (75); Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), (69); Harvey Samuel Firestone (63); Edwin Arlington Robinson (62); Princess Maria of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Santa Monica. Calif, police court last week Judge Charles M. Spencer sat on the bench listening to witnesses tell how they had arrested Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, President Hoover's brother-in-law, last month as he emerged from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Brother-in-law A cquitted | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius Murphy. Murphy, 22, died fortnight ago from a ruptured brain blood vessel. Eleven days prior he had been buffeted into unconsciousness. He was hospitalized for concussion of the brain, released prematurely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Varsatility | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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