Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearance Sale. In Sydney, Australia. Mrs. Ingeborg Luise Wenskowski, 35, got her divorce on testimony that her husband offered her to a friend for $495, on a time payment plan.
Winter Romance. In London, Mrs. Grace Clawson won a divorce after testifying that she found a letter from another woman addressing her husband as "My Own Human Hot Water Bottle . . ."
Former (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, 61, now a California aircraft-products maker, and his wife Dorothy, after 32 years of marriage, allowed that they have separated, but denied any divorce intentions. Explained Dorothy Kimball: "He is a man who is away from home for extended periods...
On the last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed...
Pursuing the ideal of high fashion, Edna Chase looked more like a society matron than a dedicated editor. Although she often joked about her large mouth ("Do put thy hand up when thee smiles." her mother had warned), she had a refined beauty plus forthright personal charm, and dressed, as...