Word: nisi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious "intervener" in the divorce case of Mrs. Simpson. It was he who alone seized and exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with a view to having the final...
...clogged by fog that most commercial aircraft had been grounded, and with the weather turning so cold that wing ice was a peril, the risk of taking off for France was resolutely taken by Theodore Goddard, head of the law firm which obtained Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi (TIME, Nov. 2), and chunky Dr. William Douglas Kirkwood, a pre-eminent London gynecologist...
...Street. Assuming, and everyone in Fleet Street did assume, that Dr. Kirkwood's report established the non-pregnancy of Mrs. Simpson, many benefits might flow from this. Among others, Lawyer Goddard, according to the British divorce law, could ask the Court to make Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi absolute not in the usual six months (on April 27), but in three months (Jan. 27). The law provides "six months" in order to make unnecessary a medical examination. In case the wife prefers to have her non-pregnancy established earlier by such an authority as Dr. Kirkwood, however...
...still the wife of London Ship-Broker Ernest Simpson, although she has obtained a decree nisi of divorce scheduled to become final on April 27. She first met Mr. Simpson, then married to a previous wife, at the home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted...
...further press attitudes on the Simpson Case, see p. 53. *Nisi: "unless." Meaning: the divorce is granted unless, within a probationary period, something turns up to prove the plaintiff unworthy of divorce. †Name: Miss "Buttercup" Kennedy...