Word: jilted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...
Only a few hours before the issuance of this jilt direct, the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos had informed reporters that she was on the point of leaving Madrid for Paris to superintend the completion of her trousseau...
Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage. One rises to the spectacular part of Lady Godiva in a voluminous blond wig. The other gets a rich beau with "honorable intentions...
...Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow and then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search oi her runaway Peke, almost decided to jilt the strong, silent Martin because his father ate sauerkraut and split his infinitives. So far we were for young Hope? strong, silent yokels being our pet abhorrence and the homelife of the Van Huisches as displayed on the screen something that needed a muzzle rather than a daughter...