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Word: heiresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice of the peace (Hugh Herbert), confusing the identities of the two young couples at their joint wedding, finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Court Circular | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family;* by his third wife, Pauline Warren Palmer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Mystery | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insult | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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