Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning a fake jewelry store holdup. News photographers dogged her footsteps, snapped her picture as she swore lustily at them. Once she carried a bag of flour which she sprinkled in the air to fog their pictures. She provided more copy by accusing her neighbors of spying on her and swearing at them when she saw them...
...Roosevelt made the 12,000-mi. Buenos Aires round trip in unaccustomed and unexpected obscurity on the inside pages of even the most earnest U. S. dailies while their most prominent news columns and largest headlines went to the Woman of the Year (see col. 3). The President was more than ever the Man of the Year of the Americas, and his happy appearance on the Buenos Aires scene was enough to reap millions of responsive Latin smiles. After he sailed home, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, by his courtly modesty and winning character, achieved more than the State Department...
...never mentioned in society columns. In the single year 1936 she became the most-talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world. In these respects no woman in history has ever equaled Mrs. Simpson, for no press or radio existed to spread the world news they made...
...England the news that the King, as King, wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson was the final culmination of a tide of events sweeping the United Kingdom out of its cozy past and into a more or less hectic and "American" future. Against this trend the spirit of John Bull resolutely set himself, and the flesh was that of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry...
...none of these faintly approached or in any degree diminished Mrs. Simpson as Woman of the Year, the figure for whom 1936 will be especially remembered. She was first in the news; first in the heart of Edward VIII (who during most of 1936 was first in British hearts); first in that historic British crisis-moral, emotional, political, religious-which aroused all civilization...