Word: elinor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24? worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant...
...suggests natural impulse rather than the arbitrary manoeuvering of a puppet master. The theme of his play--the irreconcilability of opposite temperaments--is quite well handled, too, even though we suspect him of a shade too much fondness for the current vogue of up in the air endings. By Elinor Hughes "Boston Traveler...
...become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts a senile romance with a female ward-leader named Oulihan (Maureen Delany) and finally wins the election for his son by appearing on a rostrum to denounce Murfree...
Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...
...ELINOR WYLIE-Nancy Hoyt-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). An intimate biography of the late poetess by her lower-browed sister...