Word: daughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party in the saloon of the P & O liner...
...Minister to Guatemala is Sheldon Whitehouse, an urbane gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist...
Married. Elizabeth Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City...
...entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best...
...said to have reached a circulation of 425,000. It now claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around the rousing escapades and shady epigrams of the characters of "Whiz Bang Farm" (supposedly at Robbinsdale, suburb of Minneapolis): Gus, the hired man, Olaf, Deacon Callahan, his daughter Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge...