Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After retiring, undefeated, from the Senate, Jim Reed went back to Kansas City and the law. A lover of courtroom jousts, he took all cases. Most celebrated: the famed Bridge Table Murder of 1929. A Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, after a bridge-table argument with her husband resulting from an overbid, shot him dead as he was standing in the bathroom. At the trial, Jim Reed, then 69, wept copiously. His client was acquitted...
...Ohio Star, in Mrs. Warren G. Harding's home town of Marion, shrieked: "Every patriotic citizen of the U.S., every lover of liberty in this land, should rise to condemn him and the purveyors of his filthy lies and rotten perversions...
...Then she parades before the count in his dead wife's wedding dress. At length, on a shooting party (the film is made from Chekhov's story The Shooting Party), she is mysteriously knifed to death. Her husband takes the rap. The Bolshevik revolution overtakes her guilty lover before justice does...
Monkey, whose name was not clearly pronounced even by lover-of-lore Sabu, turned in very neat job of errand running and needle-threading at the proper moments, while "King Cobra's" slenderizing away matched that of the "High-Priestess" herself, although it is difficult to say which inspired which...
Rudy Vallée, land-lubbing Coast Guard lieutenant (bandmaster), got ditched for the second time by his six-months wife, 19-year-old-Cinemaspirant Betty Jane Greer, who vowed, "This time I mean business." Said she of the thrice-married "Vagabond Lover": "Rudy is an incurable bachelor. He's just not meant to be married...