Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slays for Slaps. A party in the Manhattan boarding house of a Mrs. Mabel McGowan ended in a shooting scrape. Headlined the New York Telegram: LANDLADY SLAYS HOST. Mrs. McGowan sued for $50,000, was denied it last week when the Telegram proved a typographical error had changed "slaps" to "slays...
Charles A. Levine, rich Long Island scrap-metal man, "first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger," and Mabel Boll, bejeweled publicite who once contemplated flying from France to the U. S., arrived together in Paris. Said he, when asked if he planned to divorce his wife and marry Miss Boll: "The whole thing is utterly absurd. We just came over to spend a little vacation at Carlsbad. There is nothing unusual in the fact that Mabel is in town. We are good friends, you know...
...program this year consisted of ten of the 267 chorale-cantatas written by Bach during his Leipzig cantorship (an average of one a month). And, as always, the great Mass in B Minor. Soloists for the cantatas and the Mass were Sopranos Ernestine Hohn-Eberhard and Esther Dale, Contralto Mabel Beddoe, Tenors Arthur Kraft and Arthur Hackett, Bassos Charles T. Tittman and Robert M. Crawford and Organist T. Edgar Shields. The local choir of 241 voices sang the choruses assisted by 40 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone for "Mabel" and dropping in informally while inebriated. At the end of two hours of unclean fun, the youngest daughter is betrothed to the local vicar's son-whose first appearance in the house was as a customer-and the situation has been clarified to the satisfaction of all. Acting honors...
...late Gossipist Harden, Mabel Dons Mercer Kresge said (after their divorce): "My first husband was a delightful, worldly man. He was charming not only to me but unfortunately to every other woman he met. Naturally, that was unsettling...