Word: broker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter company. The fiction she wrote on the typewriter didn't sell, so she lied to Kenneth about a secretarial job she had made up her mind to take. It was with a broker who was going to pay her a large salary for little work, although she couldn't take short-hand and did not type very well. When the broker (John T. Murray) tries to make love to her, Helen runs out of the house. She goes back later for her hat, coat...
Helen, in her hour of need, thinks of a lifesaving lie-she killed the broker to protect her honor. Then Husband Kenneth can win fame defending her. After a trial scene which includes the most insane re-enactment of a murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated...
Married. Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, to Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower; in Manhattan's City Court; Raffray's former wife last month married Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, whose former wife six months ago married the Duke of Windsor...
...Harvard man finds himself cooped up in his father's broker's office, much to his distaste. He loses the firm's best customer, a stage Jew, and then loses his own job. Having learned that New Jersey is a place to go to for other things besides the Princeton game, he decides to set up a pig farm there. He changes to a kennel, however, when he stumbles upon Angus MacQuade, the man who in Scotland helped him buy Mr. Bones, his agreeable companion. He is pursued by his self-appointed fiancee, who has completely abandoned the feminine pretense...
Divorced. Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower, onetime actress, from Herbert F. de Bower, Manhattan broker, in Reno. She declared she would marry Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, whose former wife fortnight ago married Ernest Aldrich Simpson, ship broker, whose former wife six months ago married he Duke of Windsor...