Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Carrollton, Miss...
...Tallentyre (E. Beatrice Hall), an English writer, in her book The Friends of Voltaire (p. 199), published in England in 1906, where it was quoted as having been written in a letter to Claude Adrien Helvetius, with reference to his book, De l'Esprit. When Miss Hall was asked m 1935 for the source of the quotation, she wrote, quite naïvely, "I did not intend to imply that Voltaire used these words verbatim and should be surprised if they are found in any of his works. They are rather a paraphrase of Voltaire s words...
...decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother. After four hours of reading the manuscript from cover to cover Judge Knight ordered the diary impounded with the court...
...Brundage's other case was Mark Weston. Mary Edith Louise Weston was born in England 30 years ago. Among Englishwomen she was the best shotputter from 1924 to 1930, the best javelin thrower in 1927. Miss Weston had a close friend, named Alberta Bray. Two months ago Dr. L. R. Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have...
Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...