Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Theodore E. Apstein, legal adviser to The National Divorce Reform League: "The marriage . . . is valid on its face. . . . Andy has two ways out: 1) providing the bride has entered into a previous marriage which is in existence; 2) providing the marriage was performed by an unauthorized person."
> Lucille Pugh, noted Manhattan divorce attorney, in a learned four-page brief citing precedents from at home and abroad: "The only legal conclusion is that until the ceremony is over, either party has the right to change his mind. When Andy heard the shots, his mind certainly did change."
>Divorces were fewer among these college graduates than in the population at large. Divorce rate: 19 out of 1,000 marriages. More alumnae than alumni were divorced. Nearly three-fifths of the married college men and even more of the married college women had no children. However, most of these...
>Columnist Igor Cassini of the Washington Times-Herald printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a...
Divorced. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 33; from Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 34; at last, after the judge had refused to grant a "proxy" divorce, required Mrs. Tone's appearance "in person"; in Los Angeles.