Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.P.C.A. hauled a cootch dancer known as Zorita into a Manhattan court for cruelty to animals. The charge: that she put Scotch Tape over the jaws of an 8-ft. python named Elmer before cavorting in the near-nude with the snake coiled around her torso...
...Blonde Mrs. Edith Maria Reuss Lord went into Manhattan supreme court with a tale of marital strife which sounded like a metropolitan replay of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her manufacturer husband, Robert P. Lord, had armed men to bar her from their apartment, she said, so she had gathered up a squad of private detectives, recaptured the place and held it with a crew of shotgun-packing guards for eleven weeks...
Last Sunday was set aside by American Catholics as a day of "prayer and protest" against the Communists' trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman-who received his red hat with Mindszenty at the 1946 consistory-delivered a remarkable sermon...
Comedienne Beatrice Lillie, currently cleaning up on Broadway in Inside U.S.A., got herself all dolled up in a black taffeta maid's uniform complete to feather duster, to sweep up a few laughs at Manhattan's annual March of Dimes fashion show...
Novelist Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...