Word: nesbit
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...clock, put in a hurry call for OPA, had the Post Office rush over a blank. Forms had been delivered, days before, to the big Presidential mail desk; but Harry Hopkins and other forehanded White House residents got there first. Crowding the deadline by hours, harried Housekeeper Nesbit mailed the Roosevelt application in time...
Torchsinger Helen Morgan, piano-sitting favorite of the dry days, had her spleen removed, lay gravely ill in a Chicago hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...
Henry A. Murray, Jr., Thorpe Nesbit, Neal O'Hara, Donald K. Packard, T. S. Thorndike, Herbert E. Tucker, Paul B. Watson, Albert J. Weatherhead, Benjamin P. Whitney, Frank Wigglesworth, Grafton L. Wilson...
...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
...summer night in 1906, rich, pleasure-loving young Harry Kendall Thaw pumped three bullets into Architect Stanford White, who had seduced Evelyn Nesbit Thaw before her marriage. That killing was the most sensational crime passionnel of the young 20th-century...