All posts tagged "Brahmin"
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4.3K9Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Ben Bradlee, Boston Brahmin
Ben Bradlee, the storied newspaper editor who defied the Washington Establishment by publishing Watergate scoops and the Pentagon Papers, is very much...
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3.8K6MassachusettsNora Saltonstall Has the Time of Her Life on the Western Front
By July 1918, 23-year-old Nora Saltonstall had spent nine months in war-torn France volunteering with the American Red Cross. She was working...
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9.4K14Crime and ScandalThe Short, Wild Life of Harry Crosby, Publisher of Jazz Age Geniuses
After Harry Crosby was nearly killed in World War I, he vowed to live fast and die young. His success scandalized Boston...
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2.3K1Business and LaborFlashback Photo: Selling Tomatoes in the Market, 1909
Lewis Hine took this photograph of a boy selling tomatoes in Boston at 11 pm in October 1909. The picture was intended...
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1.8K3MassachusettsNora Saltonstall: ‘Send cigarettes for the wounded’
Nora Saltonstall, a 23-year-old heiress, was part of the Lost Generation that flocked to Europe during World War I out of a sense of...
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2.4K2MassachusettsNora Saltonstall Writes From the Western Front, 1918
It was 1918 in war-torn France, and wealthy young Nora Saltonstall had to be there. She wrote to her father to tell...
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