Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...
...this selection. It is set on the Brooklyn water front; and a young woman is enamored of one of the sailors. She has a former lover and an irascible father of impeccable lineage. These splatter the stage with farce and melodrama to a happy, if firmly foregone, conclusion. Helen McKellar, called to the part on less than a week's notice, is more than fitted for the foremost role...
...Chicago last week, Casper Rusnak, 35, Mrs. Winska Rusnak, 30, were arrested and charged with the murder of their daughter Helen, two years old. Casper Rusnak was drunk. Winska Rusnak, once insane, admitted that she had shot her daughter, but could...
...Brooklyn, Mrs. Helen Iwinski, mother of three, called Joseph Iwinski, 16, her feeble-minded eldest son, into the kitchen. Tired of his being mocked and scorned, with fierce love for her weakest child, she poured out two cups of poison. One she gave to Joseph, one she drank herself. Mother and son died...
...Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain was found superior to hers...