Word: nora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, three years ago indicated their daring to make such tests. What results, if any, they had, so far they have kept secret. Nearly three years ago, also, Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland grafter, implanted human female sex organs in Nora, happy chimpanzee and artificially impregnated her. Nora apparently conceived. But no baby was born...
Last spring, he wrote for the New York World an obituary for famed Nora Bayes, which ended: "I don't know where she is now, but I do know that whoever is with her is having a swell time." That applies well to Frank Sullivan, whether you are with him or reading his works...
Divorced. Harvey Arthur Lee, 35, retired British dealer in antiques; by Nora McMullen Lee, 49, of Litchfield, Conn., onetime wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student...
...Died. Nora Bayes, 47, famed and beautiful actress in vaudeville and musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...
Married. Miss Nora Alvarado, daughter of Felipe J. Alvarado, vice president of Costa Rica; to one Roberto S. Mata of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Her father was present...