Word: vanderbilt
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...chanted skeptical and disrespectful members of hoipolloi upon reading in the press last week that young Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and young Marshall Field had been elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company at a special stockholders' meeting. "Both," explained the stockholders, "are serious music lovers." It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate. They themselves, in their innocent rhymes and naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely...
...Vanderbilt papers (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who lost his life in the Lusitania disaster, and Mrs. Vanderbilt, a daughter (8½ lb.) ; in Manhattan...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, of Lenox...
...Vanderbilt himself writes us as follows: 'I know of no better provision for the bodily health of the student than scientific physical culture exercise. There is to my mind a far more important consideration than the benefit that I am sure the student body residing in the dormitory would derive from such a form of prescribed daily exercise. From the best of teachers, personal experience of the good which it has done their own minds and bodies, the students would learn the benefit which would accrue to their future patients and mankind, by prescribing and encouraging exercises of a similar...