Word: daughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riffling through the B's, correspondents discovered that a most interesting bastard's daughter claimed to be a direct descendant of the late great Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.* She lives in a small villa outside Paris. Called "Mme. Mesnard Leon," she is a retired schoolteacher. On her own admission and by the authority of Dr. Hoefflinger, Mme. Leon is the daughter of Count de Leon who was the illegitimate son of Napoleon and one Elenore de la Plaigne, a complaisant lady of the Imperial Court...
...stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good name for her sake...
...penny. Just after lunch 800 children clutching grimy pennies trooped to the Glen Theatre and sat on hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were the theatre's three scrubwomen, delegated to the task of suppressing unnecessary Hogmanay enthusiasms...
Married. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler, motor maker; and Edgar William Garbisch, Manhattan cotton broker, onetime (1924) West Point & all-American footballer; in Manhattan. After the wedding, the Garbisches sat down to a 30-in. tall cake in smart Sherry's Restaurant with 1,000 guests including Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mr. & Mrs. John J. Raskob, President & Mrs. Alfred Pritchard Sloane of General Motors Corp...
...went to Manhattan with $50 in his pocket, set up a physical culture studio, invented a mechanical exerciser. With his profits he started Physical Culture Magazine. His first marriage turned out badly, but left him with a daughter, Helen. His Manhattan office was raided by the late great Anthony Comstock, but nothing came of it. He founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats...