Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their...
...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
...CONSENT-Norman Lindsay- Farrar & Rinehart...
...DARK RIVER-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown...
When the Princeton campus heard the news, 123 faculty members signed petitions of "consternation." The undergraduate Liberal club, spurred by Socialist Norman Thomas, Princeton '05, collected 600 signatures protesting "the tyranny and intolerance" for which Hague and "his puppet" Governor Moore stand. The Daily Princetonian called the award "a mistake" but counseled letting it go through "in an honorable way." The University, unable to withdraw its invitation, went uncomfortably ahead to make Harry Moore an honored...