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Word: glorias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's top milliners pooled their talents to pick "the best chapeaued women of America." Among the winners: Mrs. Lauritz Melchior, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, Mrs. Bennett Cerf, Actress Sarah Churchill, Comedienne Gracie Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Laurels | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Last week, the Musni family and Father Coronel, friends no longer, were glaring at each other across a Manila courtroom while a judge weighed the legal answer to a delicate question that had disturbed the whole Philippine Republic: Was Father Coronel legally married to Gloria Musni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Father Coronel's own answer was an emphatic no. True, he told the court, he and Gloria had gone through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in 1948, but there were at least two invalidating circumstances: i) the marriage was never consummated; 2) Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...arrived in my home on Lealtad Street and found my wife crying. I asked her what was wrong, but she refused to talk, so I hit her. Then she talked. She said Gloria was pregnant and crying in her room. I asked Gloria if this was true and who did it, but she kept quiet. So I hit her. Then my son Nestor arrived and I explained the matter to him. He also hit her. Then she talked. She said it was Father Coronel who did it ... The next morning I went [out] with my son . . . came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Delicate Question | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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