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Word: janet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 51, New York's one-time Mayor; by Janet Allen Walker, fortyish, onetime vaudeville singer, daughter of the Chicago Evening American's first city editor; in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Fla. Charge: "Willful" desertion . . . "guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1933 | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...take this occasion to come to TIME's defense and to differ with Janet Lindsay Pollock in her letter concerning Fredric (Bickel) March that is published in the Feb. 20 issue of TIME. TIME states in its Nov. 28 issue, "Fredric March would have been vastly surprised a dozen years ago had anyone predicted that he would ever receive ... the Academy's Approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither of them cares a whoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...BRIGHT LAND-Janet Ayer Fair-bank-H ought on Mifflin ($2.50). Call me pet names, dearest! Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Centenary Chronicle | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Married. Janet Sheppard, 21, eldest daughter of U. S. Senator from Texas Morris Sheppard (18th Amendment); and one William Graves, 21, fellow student in a drama school; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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