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Word: divorcee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Lady Dorothy Whittall Campbell, by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell, now heading a British motorcycle militia unit (TIME, Sept. 25); in London.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Beyond the wondering stage and into reality went the San Francisco Exchange, which handles some $100,000,000 in sales annually, could clearly see its business vanishing into other States if "ham-&-eggs" brought the threat of an annual tax of $3,000,000-a tax greater than the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGES: Flight to Reno | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

But Dr. Johnson took pains to divorce himself from lay progressive educators. "We Catholics," said he, "believe in original sin, and so we believe in discipline. A good many progressives don't seem to believe in any sin at all!" Discipline in Dr. Johnson's school, however, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Healthily Modern | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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