Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Careless Wiver. In Detroit, Hartwell Johnson won a divorce after testifying that his wife used her maiden name, went around introducing him as her chauffeur.
Working on a new novel called Lord Timothy Dexter Revisited, a guest known as Mr. Maynard kept his identity mostly secret on a ranch in Nevada's Washoe Valley. This week, his residence requirements satisfied, Mr. Maynard will have to make himself known in order to seek a divorce...
Unhappily, Charlotte's husband (Dan O'Herlihy), a college professor who is usually summed up by those who know him best and like him least as a "stuffed shirt," feels pretty much the same way. He has long since fallen out of love with his wife, but he...
Once More, With Feeling (by Harry Kurnitz) is a farcical assault on the world of music, not unlike the author's skirmish, in Reclining Figure, with the world of art. The method is to let fly now at chicanery and now at sham, and in between to go in...
Clarke's first attempt fails (nothing comes easy to a Shute hero), and he returns exhausted to Pascoe's house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display...