Word: irma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...
...cried Sir Ernest Wild, K. C., Recorder of London, at Old Bailey court, last week. After elaborating these thoughts for some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...
...last week appeared likely that Erma would soon change to Irma. Born in 1926, Erma grew very rapidly, but last winter it appeared that her constitution had been undermined and that she was likely to collapse at any moment. Should Erma actually become Irma, however, the change would be a potent augury of future good health...
...Makers' Association, a cartel which includes British, French, German, Belgian and Central European rail manufacturers. It was last week reported that U. S. railmakers were on the point of formally entering the cartel. Thus the cartel would no longer be European but International, thus Erma would evolve into Irma...
...even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...