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Voters Service founded by, 110–11, 120
Stern, Philip, 109, 112, 117, 118, 119, 120
Stern Fund, 117–19
Stevenson, Adlai E., 118
Steward, LeRoy T., 132, 133
Stewart, Adelia Smith, 57–58, 59
Stewart, David, 57, 59, 62, 82
Stewart Iron Company, 57
Stillman, Anne, 146
Stones of Venice, The (Ruskin), 214
Stotesbury, Edward T. (Ned),
anti-New Deal views of, 46
art collected by, 33
background of, 22–23
business affairs of, 20, 22, 34, 39, 43, 46
death of, 46
in Depression, 43–44
first marriage of, 23
in Philadelphia society, 24–26, 27–28, 29–30, 36–37, 48
on poverty, 39
second marriage of, 23–24, 26, 41
Stotesbury, Fanny Butcher, 23
Stotesbury, Lucretia (Eva) Bishop Roberts:
art collected by, 33–34, 36, 44–45, 47, 51–52, 68, 84, 86, 168, 215, 220
background of, 15–16, 281
children born to, 19
death of, 51
in Depression, 43–44, 45
Duveen’s relations with, 33–34, 36, 38, 42, 47, 84, 86, 167–68, 220
fatal flaw of, 38
financial difficulties of, 46–47, 48
first marriage of, 16–17, 20, 21
jewels owned by, 26, 27–28, 32, 36–37
mansions built by, 34, 35, 37, 41–42, 107
in New York society, 17, 20–21
parties given by, 20, 31–33, 36–37, 41, 44, 49
personal sense of theatre of, 15, 32, 49
in Philadelphia society, 24, 26–28, 29–30, 31–33, 35, 36–37, 38, 48–49, 56
philanthropy of, 43
second marriage of, 23–24, 26
on social responsibility, 11, 39–40
Strauss, Richard, 131
Stud Book, 237
Sullivan, John L., 78, 131
Sulzberger, Germon, 106n
Sunset, 207
Supreme Court, U.S., 16
Sutherland, Robert L., 274
Symmes, John Cleves, 155
Taft, Annie Sinton, 156, 164, 165
Taft, William Howard, 26, 157
Temple Emanu-El, 101
Ternina, Milka, 242
Tetrazzini, Luisa, 103–4
Tharp, Louise Hall, 73, 93
Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 149
Theodore Roosevelt Association, 254
Thomas, Augustus, 228
Thomas Emery’s Sons, Incorporated, 157–58
Titian, 218
Toscanini, Arturo, 245, 246, 272
Tragedy of Lucretia, The (Botticelli), 84
Tree, Marietta, 170n
Trumbauer, Horace, 36
Tuskegee Institute, 105
Twilight of Splendor, The (Maher), 189
Twitchell Process Company, 158
Tyler, George, 230
United Appeal, 239
United Jewish Appeal, 239
Up from Slavery (Washington), 105
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 231
Vanderbilt, Grace, 235–36
Vanderbilt, William H., 194, 197, 213
Vanderbilt, William K., 231, 245
Vanderbilt mansion, 194, 197
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Alexander, 48
Vassar College, 159
Vedder, Elihu, 199
Velásquez, Diego, 168, 211
Vernon Children, The (Romney), 47
Vibert, Jean Georges, 199
Villa Turicum, 133, 144, 146
Violet Note (Whistler), 68
Waite, Morrison R., 16
Wallis, Gladys, 228
Walska, Ganna, 138–40, 141, 142–43, 149–51
Walt Disney World, 115–16
Warburg, Felix, 103, 105
War Council, U.S., 240
Ward, Aaron Montgomery, 99
Ward, Sam, 73
Warren, Frances, 126
Washington, Booker T., 105
Washington Post, 118
Washington society, 31
Waterford Jack (Frances Warren), 126
WDSU Broadcasting, New Orleans, 118
wealth:
in Boston society, 55, 60
in Depression, 43
noblesse oblige and, 40, 169–70, 283
values associated with, 169–70, 178, 283
Wecter, Dixon, 223–24
Weeks, Edward, 91
Weidenfeld, Camille, 187
Wellesley College, 9–10
Wharton, Edith, 58, 74, 75
Wheeler, Alvin, 269
Whistler, James McNeill, 67–68
White, Stanford, 74, 75, 282
Whitemarsh Hall, 35–36, 37, 43, 44, 46–47, 48, 107
Whitney, Sarah Swan, 231
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 91
Who’s Who: A Society Register … for Cincinnati (Devereux), 173–74
Who’s Who in America, 118
Wilde, Oscar, 131–32
Wildenbourg, Prince François-Edmond-Joseph-Gabriel Vit de und von Hatzfeldt, 200
Wilson, Adah, 149
Wilson, Woodrow, 240, 246
Wingwood House, 42, 43
Wolff, Edwin, II, 208
Women’s Trade Union League, 231
Working Girls’ Vacation Association, 239
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 270–71
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, 100, 126, 127
World War I, 239–40, 263
World War II, 34
Worsham, Annette, 191
Worsham, Arabella Duval, see Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham
Worsham, Archer Milton, 191, 193, 200–201
Worsham, Johnny, 190, 191–92, 195, 197
Worth, Graham A., 156
Yarrington, Arabella Duval, see Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham
Yarrington, Catherine, 189, 190–91, 192, 194
Yarrington, Richard, 189
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 163, 164
Zangwill, Israel, 228–29
Zaza (Leoncavallo), 139
Zorn, Anders, 90–91
Zurbarán, Francisco de, 83
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