Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold Snorage. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn was granted a divorce after she testified that her husband made her sleep in an unheated attic for ten years "because I snored," wouldn't allow her to leave the attic door open at night because "too much cold air blew down...
The Finish. In London, Douglas Griffiths got his divorce after he testified that he had paid no attention to his wife's carryings-on with another man, finally had enough when she helped her lover polish his car while Griffiths' grimy auto was parked near by.
After a quiet six-week respite in a cozy Sun Valley chalet (owner: New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman), pretty Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 33. second wife of Millionaire Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, won a divorce on the technical ground of "extreme mental cruelty." During the last fortnight...
The Last Word. In Los Angeles, after her husband, whom she was suing for divorce, complained to the court that she had run up bills for $3,100 in three months, partly for trips to a psychiatrist, Mrs. Portia Allegretti explained: "My husband said I was crazy and I wanted...
Molar Opposites. In San Diego, Mrs. Marjorie Lee McClurken, suing for divorce, testified that because her husband refused to pay for professionally-made choppers, she was forced to buy an instruction book, make her own false teeth.