Word: reno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organ music almost drowned a faintly ominous message from Reno: June divorces were bigger, better and fancier than ever...
...Smith Brothers are pillars of their community; they run the finest gambling joint in Reno, Nev. Harold's Club (named for the older brother) earns more than a million silver dollars every year, making it the nation's biggest. The Smith boys are always ready to do something nice for people. They donated Reno's Catholic nursery, gave $5,000 to pay off the mortgage of the local Methodist church, spent more thousands for the Mormons, the Church of the Nazarene, the Negro Methodists. Last week the Smith Brothers, who never got through high school, were ready...
...Reno, where gambling is legal, nobody raised an eyebrow when the university's president accepted. Students with scruples about it can apply for one of the eight scholarships from the Reno Woman's Christian Temperance Union instead. But the W.C.T.U. scholarships pay only...
...lady friend he surprised last January by marrying another (TIME, Jan. 21). Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, charged the Marine ace, had stolen $9,340 he had sent her for the care of his children by his first wife (who married a newsboy last March). When the news reached Reno, Miss Malcolmson, who was preparing to become a landlady for marital transients, promptly disappeared. Six days later she was still missing...
Consuelo Vanderbilt Warburton, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and granddaughter of the late Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, flew into Reno to have it done again. Her third ex-husband would be Commander William John Warburton of Manhattan's Racquet & Tennis Club...