Word: carveth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suit Won. By Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, first wife of Explorer Grant Carveth Wells; against Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, his present wife (TIME, April 29); in Bridgeport, Conn. Alleging alienation of affections and misconduct, Mrs. Wells asked $50,000. A jury awarded her $3,000 on the first count, $2,000 on the second...
Sued. Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity...
...short visit in a country that presents so many aspects and such varied problems. Harry Franck is--as always--immediately disarming as he informs you in the preface "But," you cry, "only thirty days!" Yes, but that seems as long as the erudite Dr. Durrant or the intrepid Carveth Wells or the portly Alexander Woollcott spent there--yet they each got a book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth about the USSR...
...Pont remembered with a Christmas present Senator Gerald Prentice Nye and each member of his Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. Mr. du Pont's present, in each case: a copy of Kapoot (kaput: "done for"), an account of Russian poverty and industrial inefficiency by Grant Carveth Wells...
Exploring America with Conoco and Carveth Wells...