Word: floradora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floradora Girl Evelyn Nesbit, 61, the 1906 reason why the late Harry K. Thaw (TIME, March 3) shot Stanford White, walked into a windfall. She was airing her Belgian griffon, Hedy LaMarr, on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, when a casting expert rushed up and offered the beast a trot-on role in the Broadway musical, Street Scene. Salary: $20 a week...
...murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn...
Died. Marjorie Relyea Stokes, 76, one of the original "Floradora" sextet, who reversed the marital timetable of most Floradora girls by marrying a wealthy man (William D. Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's nephew) before her stage success; in Manhattan...
...Grand Duchy during World War II should be witnessed by disinterested observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily News) put the story on the wires...