Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana's payroll, Alice Lee was last fortnight demoted from her $7,500 job as Collector of Revenue to a $5,000 job as State Supervisor of Public Funds. Last week she was suddenly fired. Few days later her husband, William Allen Tharpe, was dropped from his $5,000 job as secretary of the State Tax Commission. Other Grosjean relatives on the payroll trembled. Longster Grosjean had evidently offended Louisiana's reigning triumvirate
Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
Women, Kiss the Boys Good-bye). Two other women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona
...practically anything otter-hunting dogs can do. The heavy (average: 24 Ibs.), healthy animals perform tricks, follow a scent, retrieve pheasants and ducks with the speed of a prize cocker spaniel. As playful as "Saki's" Laura, who turned into an otter to plague a friend's husband, they are quick to learn, eager to please...
Shortly after one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled...