Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nordica's three husbands brought the unhappiness into her life. First was one Frederick A. Gower who took a balloon flight over the English Channel and never returned. Second was Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...
...painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three older sisters were beauties; her little brother was a caution (his most prized possession was a bottle in which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss Ada, the family's unpleasantly decrepit old pony. When a neighboring farmer...
With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
...only English landladies spoke French, and if only their English cooks knew something of haute cuisine, Frenchmen with gold francs would be tempted in droves across the Channel. Last week, with this in mind, the progressive Mayor of Blackpool had drummed up 28 landladies, was having them taught French, with French cooking to follow. First question and answer memorized by Blackpool's pucker-browed landladies...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...