Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday receptions-"there were thirty-six races and creeds and tongues." Dressed as a Moslem woman, she frequented the bazaars and harems. Their great friends were Abd-el-Kadir, an almost legendary chieftain who had held out for 15 years against the French, and Jane Digby El Mezrab, the Mabel Dodge Luhan of her time. The four of them used to have ritual evening meals on the roof, "and after that we would smoke our narghilehs and talk and talk and talk far into the night...
...Communist?" On the Senate floor, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina gave a list of plays presented by Federal Theatre that "definitely bear the trademark of 'red' Russia in their titles, plays spewed forth from the gutters of the Kremlin." Senator Reynolds included Up in Mabel's Room...
Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...
Just as the Hollywood Marines were about to board the train, a swarm of process servers descended with writs for 15 of the men. Major Van Dyke exploded, declared he would turn the whole matter over to his attorney, Mabel Walker Willebrandt...
Lanning Prescott Budd, born in 1899, son of the European sales manager of Budd Gunmakers, lives on the Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower...