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Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...takes a six-week residence in Reno to become a divorcée. It takes a six-month residence to become a voter. Last week while "newcomers" were busy in court getting separated from their spouses, Reno's "oldtimers" went to the polls, re-elected Edwin Ewing Roberts, 61, as their Mayor for a third four-year term. Father-in-law of famed Baseballer Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, and once (1910-19) a Republican Congressman, Mayor Roberts won 3,773 votes by his loud espousal of easy divorce, legalized gambling and free barrels of whiskey. For Howard Doyle...
...supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women." One of these males is melted by the divorcée. Nancy, a profane prairie kitten, makes the evening a quaint quadrangle...
...Dennistouns were divorced and an arrangement was agreed upon whereby Colonel Dennistoun would support the divorcée when he 'was in a financial position to do so, provided that she would not press for a court order for alimony. In 1923, a few months after the death of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon of Tutankhamen fame, Colonel Dennistoun married Almina, the Dowager Countess...
...first would-be divorcée to have a country shot from under...