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...introduction to her thorny subject Lawyer Drummond tells the legal fairy tale of ''Col. Beauregard'' who. simply by acting like a Southern gentleman of the old school, found himself technically guilty of perjury, abandonment, adultery, seduction, bigamy and rape. Part One summarizes the history of the law of marriage & divorce, tells all about annulment, grounds for divorce, alimony, costs, divorce outside the U. S.; ends with a disturbing chapter on conflicting divorce laws, the uncertain validity of many divorces. Part Two gives a summary of divorce laws in each State, in the popular divorce mills...
...capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with...
Column three, page nine, you state: ". . . Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah...
Thus, last week, progressed a spelling-bee held on the Utah to vary the monotony of the usual deck-games. Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah. Eighteen words chosen from a list containing such orthographic stumpers as "vilified," "picknicking," "Philippine," "harassed," were given to the contestants. The winners were Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. Their record: 14 right, four wrong...
...arrest some 800 of the 1,300 officers, men, guests on board who had never before crossed the Equator. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover were exempt, he being a "shellback" with 14 crossings of the Equator to his credit, more than anyone else present except his naval aide, Commander A. T. Beauregard...