Word: obiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious to know what rewrite man is responsible and hope you can convey my orchids. I notice a resemblance to the famous Coolidge "Obit" and I wonder if it was the same writer or if TIME'S school of journalism makes Maupassants of all its writers...
...repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...
...Reason, God's Country); by his own hand (revolver); in Manhattan. Four times married - to Marie Jennings, Anna Minerly, Actress Carlotta Monterey (now married to Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill) and French Composer Germaine Tailleferre-he was four times divorced. Last week he left a statement headed "Obit" which said: "I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape from myself. ... In particular, my remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost angel, Carlotta [who had just returned from France to Manhattan with...