Word: newport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, Foxcroft graduate, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; at Llewellyn Park...
Whenever the National Horse Show is held in Madison Square Garden, a bowlegged groom is procured from somewhere, dressed in a red coat, and stationed with the top-hatted judges in the middle of the tanbark. Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel." Thus it has been for many years. Thus it was last week, in spite of all nebulous rumors that new blood and new money have sullied...
...boon to Newport-bound socialites is the new bridge. Long have they had to cross to the southern peninsula on a slow, chugging ferry, instituted in 1680, onetime carrier of Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau...
...been faithful to his post. Man and boy, writer and editor, he had labored for the American since he was 27. He is now 40. The War, temporarily interrupting his journalistic orbit, took him as a second lieutenant, left him a major. Carroty-haired down-Easter (from North Newport, Me.), no dilettante, no pedant, he admired teamwork, organization bankers...
...Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville Dam; Oct. 24-in Washington pushes button to open new Mount Hope Bridge connecting Bristol and Newport...