Word: eldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...
...tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA RECEIVE...
...mouse-still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
Elected. Jay Smith, eldest son of Boat Builder Chris Smith (Chris-Craft), to be president of Chris Smith and Sons Boat Co., at Algonac, Mich. Chris Smith becomes chairman. His other sons Bernard, Owen and Hamilton are company executives. His daughter Catherine is treasurer...