Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall One. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Caroline Squire, suing for divorce, charged that her husband stepped out for a glass of beer on July 4, 1917 and had never come back...
Portia Faces Life. In St. Louis, Mrs. Lillian A. Shenker, serving her first day as provisional judge in City Court, explained why she had fined a man $50 for beating his wife but had dismissed the case of another man charged with cuffing his girl friend: "The wife . . . has to live with [her husband] and can't escape . . . but the other man had beaten his girl before and experience should have taught her what to expect...
Closed Shop. In St. Louis, Mr. & Mrs. George H. Pring returned home in time to find a burglar leaving with $530 in cash and jewelry, asked how he got in and received a guarded reply: "That's a professional secret; if I tell you, you'll go out and rob houses...
...slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
...Mrs. Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...