Word: annulment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prince, reported the papers, was one Rico David Tancous, wanted in Washington for housebreaking and theft. At week's end, the bridegroom had skipped town and his bride was threatening to annul the marriage. Editorialized the scoop-happy Item: "Phony princes, dubious dukes and no-count counts are scarcely strangers to the American scene ... In newspaper parlance, Otto Wilhelm von Hohenzollern ... is good copy...
...column before his election to Congress from Manhattan's Republican "silk-stocking" district (1937), has long itched to resume it. Still hustling and hopeful at 63, Bruce Barton says: "I sometimes wrote [when I was younger] as though I knew all the answers. The years soften and finally annul that idea...
...money. Life would have been simpler if people had given him what he wanted in the first place. Had Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
...come off, Independent Plaza's presidential chances will improve. In last week's count he led Conservative Manuel Elicio Flor 115,846 to 111,970, and when the last few returns were examined this week the Electoral Court would probably proclaim his election. But Congress can still annul Plaza's majority. With a few achievements in the U.S., go-getting Galo Plaza could convince the last diehards that they had better string along with...
Gold-mine Heiress Nancy Oakes de Marigny sued to annul her 5½-year-old marriage to Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in the Bahamas in 1943 of bludgeoning her father to death. Her charge: he was never validly divorced from his first wife...