Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Walter Wanger, 43, cinema producer (You Only Live Once, Stand-In) ; by Justine Johnstone Wanger, 39, famed oldtime Ziegfeld Follies girl; in Los Angeles. Charge: that Producer Wanger was "abrupt, surly and discourteous...
Last week current trend toward postponing Philippine independence was indicated again. In Washington Franklin Delano Roosevelt made public an exchange of messages between himself and President Quezon, which showed they were at least completely agreed on the Roosevelt plan to substitute gradual reduction of trade preferences for the abrupt reduction called for by the McDuffie-Tydings Act. The plan will be included in the committee's report, considered by Congress next year...
Having made Benedictine alone for 358 years, the Frenchmen of Fécamp recently launched a new line-"B and B" (for Benedictine & Brandy). This combination is familiar to every barfly who has found Benedictine too saccharine, mixed Cognac with it for a drier beverage. In such abrupt mixing, however, brandy floats on rather than blends with Benedictine. The Manhattan liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle...
Married. Gertrude Bennett, 17, Michigan State Normal College student, daughter of Harry H. Bennett, Ford's hard-boiled personnel director and plant police head; to Russell Hughes, 21, tap dancer and trap drummer. Chubby Gertrude's abrupt disappearance, after the receipt by Bennett of several phoned and mailed threats in recent months, the last "particularly nasty in its implications," made Bennett fear kidnapping. Federal agents were notified, a search begun. But Miss Bennett had merely eloped to Florida...
...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...