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Word: divorcee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beaked Alan Patrick Herbert, 48, England's quixotic M. P. for Oxford who crusades with equal fervor for good beer, sensible divorce laws and the King's English, broke a lance against the windmill of officialese. Said he, if Nelson's famed signal ("England expects every man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

As in the Panama Canal Zone, the Federal District Court is Justice's only habitation in the Virgin Islands except for police courts. All offenses for which the penalty is more than six months in jail are tried in the Federal Court. At that, it handles only about 300...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Black Plum | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

The 210 young people were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jocists to Altar | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight after the issue hit London newsstands, 63-year-old Charles Grey Grey announced his resignation (effective some months hence). His sole comment: "Only the directors of Temple Press Ltd. [his publishers], not even C. G. Grey, know why I'm resigning." But British airmen only marveled that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Divorce Disclosed. Peter Arno (real name: Curtis Arnoux Peters), 38, clean-cut, cáfe-socialite cartoonist (The New Yorker); by Mary ("Timmie") Lansing, 24, beauteous socialite; her first, his second; in Litchfield, Conn. Grounds: "intolerable cruelty."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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