Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unspoiled." This does not prevent her from being fresh. When, preparatory to meeting H. G. Wells, she was informed that he was the most important man in the universe, she chirped: "Oh no, he's not! God is the most important and Governor Merriam's second." In Palm Springs she showed General Pershing her autograph book and asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning that he knew none of them, she lost interest in him, disrespectfully inquired later how he came to be a general. She likes vaudeville jokes, frequently...
...benefit of nonlawyer Senators, is a proceeding whereby a person having no legitimate interest in a law suit abets it with money or services in the hope of profit. Judge Ritter. the House managers asserted, had connived with his onetime partner and others to throw Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, into receivership, had thereupon granted Lawyer Rankin an exorbitant fee of $75,000, got $4,500 of it for himself...
Married. Michael Grace ("Mike") Phipps 27, grandson of the late Steel-master Henry Phipps and the late Shipping Tycoon Michael P. Grace, international polo player (handicap: eight goals); and Muriel Pillans Lane, British socialite; m Palm Beach...
...Palm Sunday last week, Pope Pius XI accepted a plaited, elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy...
Died. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, 33, eldest of the three "Marrying Mdivanis"; onetime husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Opera Singer Mary McCormic; near Palm Beach, when his polo pony fell, kicked in his head. On the sidelines was his bride of a month, Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, onetime wife of Brother Alexis Mdivani, Heiress Barbara Hutton's first husband, who was killed seven months ago in an automobile crack-up near Gerona, Spain (TIME...