Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruth has man trouble too. There is a shadowy divorce in her distant past, and when she enters for the first time she has just broken off with a lover, whom we do not see. We are told that she likes hungry artists, that she disburses money as well as...
Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents...
Grass Widow. In Sydney, Australia, Mary Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband preferred to sleep on the lawn.
Her parents, however, oppose their wedding by reason of the difference of each position, and of course she is procured artificial abortion, while her father divorce her from charley.
What lifted Curley out of the barren pattern set by most other bosses was his wit. Much of it was of a local variety. In 1921 campaigning for Mayor against John R. Murphy, a good Irish Catholic, Curley dressed up a few of his camp followers as priests and sent...