Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last November Manhattan's tabloids fished up a new Romeo & Juliet tale for their yearning millions. George Lowther 3rd, 30-year-old café socialite, and pretty, 20-year-old Eileen Herrick were in love. Eileen's father disapproved of George, kept Eileen locked up at home. On a writ of habeas corpus George haled Eileen & father into court (TIME, Nov. 27), got legal sanction for his courtship. But Father Herrick spirited Eileen away, frustrating George, delighting Manhattan's millions...
...YORK--Eileen Herrick and George Lowther 3rd--remember their famous Romeo and Juliet didoes back in 1939? "cloped to get married" today, the dashing young boulevardier's attorney announced tonight...