Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Mr. Chaplin said to men friends in speaking of his marriage: "Well, boys, this is better than going to the penitentiary, but it won't last long...
That he boasted of his affairs with "five movie actresses," threatened Mrs. Chaplin with a revolver, and "always detested" their two children...
...CHAPLIN...
That Mrs. Chaplin and her mother, Mrs. Grey, have been demanding $1,000,000, with the threat: "We'll ruin you if you don't settle...
Significance. The Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...