Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took a baby, one that I thought no one else in the world wanted but me. I did tell Dr. Pitzman he was the father but there never was a conspiracy to de fraud him of any of his property or any of his money. His purse was always open to me, as he has testified. I did it out of love, to hold him. I don't want innocent people to suffer. My husband did not know the facts until last Monday night. There never has been the slightest thought or slightest idea to violate...
About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...
...Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation for Generalissimo Franco's bombing of Madrid on Christmas Day, Red operatives secretly installed a series of bombs in a roadbed near Talavera de la Reina, blew up a 23-car train of White troops, killing hundreds...
...Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with her in Act II. There they meet an indelible character named the Countess de Lage (Margaret Douglass). The Countess has married three fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds in sending home the youngest of the Women (Adrienne Marsden) without a divorce...
...Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...