Word: moffett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie Donahue was supposed to ride a float and offer flowers to Ferdinand the Bull, but at the last moment his mother...
Beauteous Adelaide Moffett Brooks...
widowed 24-year-old socialite who sometimes sings in nightclubs and is the daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett, filed a bankruptcy petition in Manhattan. Listing liabilities of $9,961 and assets of $1,800 (including two Sealyham dogs valued at $200), she blamed her financial distress on a spending spree. Said she: "I guess I was too fond of buying clothes...
...19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...
After a sumptuous luncheon the new rulers of Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...