Vanderbilt

1 Vanderbilt stood his ground and refused to let Riddle board the train until he had signed the paper.

2 The man he approached was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr. A dead ringer for actor Jimmy Stewart, Vanderbilt was a gangly twenty-five-year- old whose gentle, self-effacing manner belied his fabulous wealth.

3 His ties with them also mark the biggest contradiction in Vanderbilt's life.

与这些人的往来也构成了范德比尔特一生最大的矛盾。

4 Smith and Vanderbilt joined him, and the three of them fought to stay on their feet as reporters and fans pushed and pulled on them.

5 Newspapers ran stories about “the Bewitching Brokers,” and businessmen tolerated their presence in the all-male world of finance because they had Vanderbilt’s backing.

6 Even without the fair he faced an intimidating portfolio of works in progress, chief among them the grounds of Biltmore, the Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina.

7 When Vanderbilt died a few years later, his family offered the sisters $100,000 if they would leave the country.

8 In New York, the sisters arranged a magnetic healing session with multimillionaire financier and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.

9 Vanderbilt stood in the winner’s circle, awaiting the completion of the circuit.

10 Vanderbilt jumped into a cab, sped across town, and dashed into Penn Station, where he caught up with Riddle just as he was about to board the train.

11 Team Seabiscuit was slated to stop off in Maryland to fulfill a promise to Alfred Vanderbilt to run in Pimlico’s Dixie Handicap, then go on to meet War Admiral in New York.

12 The inside of the Vanderbilt Hotel is easily the fanciest place I’ve ever been.

13 A few hundred miles south of Winthrop Hospital, Alfred Vanderbilt was busy cultivating a passion of his own.

14 Still, she zips us up to the Vanderbilt Hotel lobby without another word.

15 The leaks showed that Vanderbilt spares no one's blushes in its explicit descriptions of kinky sex.

从泄漏的小说内容中来看,范德比尔特的文字对变态性行为那毫不含蓄的描写足以让人面红耳赤.

16 On one of those afternoons, Marcela brought Alfred Vanderbilt up to join them.

17 He proposed that Vanderbilt try to host a meeting between Seabiscuit and War Admiral.

18 Vanderbilt thought he could talk Riddle out of his boycott, but just as he was about to contact the owner, Riddle seemed to back out of his offer altogether.

19 They could make it up to Vanderbilt later.

20 Pretending to be in a trance, Woodhull passed along inside information to Vanderbilt about the business plans of his rivals, based on gossip she had heard from Mansfield.

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