Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
...reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...
Emergency or sub-standard teachers will, of necessity, fill many vacancies, Mabel Studebaker, president of the National Education Association, predicted. "Communities everywhere must embark on recruitment programs stressing the attractive features of the profession to young people," she said...
...Mabel S. Greer's contested $500,000 bequest to Harvard will probably be divided between the University and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to Henry A Wood Jr. deputy Treasurer of the College...
Courtship. In Durham, N.C., Mabel Williams, refusing to press charges against Cleo Cozart, who had stabbed her, explained that they were going to be married...