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Word: divorcee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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