Word: bre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indication of the heroic optimism which has always characterized the friendly Harold McCormick, was of course unjustified. Ganna Walska achieved, not merely the notoriety which generally attaches to her doings; before she had put foot on the U. S., she became a cause célèbre, a wronged woman, an international affair. In short, she surpassed herself and Harold McCormick's worst presentiments. Ganna Walska arrived with 15 trunks, containing, she said, $2,500,000 worth of personal effects; and when customs officials demanded that she pay duty of approximately $1,000,000 upon these, Ganna Walska...
...pantomimics." Yet Parliament recently passed a law (TIME, Dec. 20) forbidding the publication of sensational divorce details. Therefore though George V., R. I., may have read the London papers never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying to be a typist before she married Charles Spencer Chaplin, born at London in 1889, still a Briton...