Word: divorce
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife in 1942 for childlessness and married pretty, 18-year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted...
...strengthen the West Indian loyalty to the crown. The royal family undoubtedly hoped that the trip might have some of the same effect, so to speak, on Margaret; London society insists that she is still deeply in love with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, a war hero but a divorcé (TIME, July 20, 1953). If she decides to marry Townsend (which she will be eligible to do without the sovereign's permission after her 25th birthday in August), Margaret will have to give up her rights of succession and her $17,000 annual stipend...
Marc Champagnat, a stout and fastidious retired railroad worker, was the Dr. Johnson of the town of Angoulême A divorcé and a gourmet, Marc and his friends-the undertaker, the fishmonger, the mayor, the lawyer's clerk and the school principal-met so regularly in the tavern called Le Practic that their group became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow...
...fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...
...girl she looks 'too young' or 'too beautiful' for the part," said he. "What can you say to a girl who won't make a suitable Vestal Virgin?" But he had apparently found just what he was looking for. The lucky six: two divorcées, aged 39 and 47, three married women, aged 23, 56 and 60, and one unmarried girl, aged...