Word: backgammoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight gold digger, nearly on her uppers, makes a desperate set at the man of her schemes, succeeds in breaking his engagement, almost lands him. But backgammon ruins her, saves...
Sued for Divorce. By Jane Thurston Harris, 21, daughter of Conjurer Howard Thurston: Harry Harris. 29, Pittsburgh theatre scion; in Pittsburgh. Charges: because she refused his backgammon advice, he hurled backgammon board, glasses and a ginger ale bottle, tore off her clothes before guest. Not mentioned: the 1931 fight in a Detroit hotel between Defendant Harris & Father-in-law Thurston, leaving two Thurston ribs broken, Harris nearly blinded by a volley from Thurston's tear gas fountain...
...Moore house they sat on Early American chairs and ate a chatty meal. Then the ladies repaired to a long drawing room full of roses and tulips. At this point the gathering lost all resemblance to a conventional Long Island luncheon. No bridge tables had been set up, no backgammon boards unfolded. The ladies were there for serious business. Leaders and representatives of a million other women, they had come to talk and act about liquor...
...will put down either in longhand or by dictation : she does not know how to typewrite, though for purposes of publicity the American pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew she was one day to work for William Randolph Hearst, she ap peared in a charity tableau representing Cinemactress Marion Davies...
...more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting eleven weeks at Manhattan's Palace Theatre, No. 1 vaudeville house in the U. S. Singer Smith is 23 years old, addicted to plain clothes, backgammon, soda fountain drinks, prizefights. Like Caruso, she has small vocal cords, immensely powerful lungs, a jolly disposition...