Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gray asked District Judge Che Wan Soon (male) of Cheju city what would happen if a Cheju male accused his wife of infidelity. "There would be a fight," said the judge, but he ventured no prediction of who would...
...Succeeds Caesar? Behind him Joe Patterson, moody millionaire and reformed Socialist, left an anxious question for his hirelings and rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...
...Bride Wore Boots (Paramount) is a depressing little example of what can happen to a romantic farce when it is mauled by inept hands. Plainly designed as an airy, sophisticated yarn, the film follows the marital ups & downs of Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings. After seven years of marriage, they are the parents of two healthy, handsome and singularly bad-mannered children...
...Britons whose statesmanship had produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...
...payment credit plan. Lately Pedro had turned a few pesos by keeping books for a nearby almacén (store), and this, with the $35 a month earned by elder son Guillermo, brought the Pisani budget into precarious balance. Pedro shuddered to think of what would happen if sickness struck his home...