Word: divorces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...Divorced. Martha Foley Burnett, 40, co-founder and longtime co-editor of Story magazine; by bearded co-founder and co-editor Whit Burnett, 43; after twelve years; in Reno. Few hours later he married Hallie Southgate Abbett, 34, Reno divorcée of October...
...Divorced. Cinemactress Mae West; from Vaudeville Dancer Frank Wallace, from whom she had been separated since a few weeks after their marriage in Milwaukee, 31 years ago; in Los Angeles. Said Divorcée West: "He has been a pain in the neck for a long time...
Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcée, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape...