Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Percy L. Crosby of Manhattan, cartoonist (Skippy), art editor of Life; by Mrs. Gertrude V. Crosby, on the ground of extreme cruelty ("vile and obscene" language, flirtations). The Crosbys were married in 1917, have a seven-year-old daughter...
...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...
...divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...
...President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper." From the above and other passages it will appear that "adjournment" may be not merely due to the expiration of the life of a Congress, but from day to day, or until a certain day, or sine die. The occasion upon whch an unsigned bill is "pocket vetoed" occurs when "the Congress by their Adjournment" prevent its return. Adjournment from day to day is clearly not such an occasion. Adjournment sine die would seem...