Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little town of Stuart, Fla., New York's ailing Mayor William O'Dwyer ended two months of speculation, rumors and denials by getting a license to marry Texas-born brunette Divorcee Elizabeth Sloan Simpson, 33, onetime model and more recently a department-store stylist. Miss Simpson chose a plain navy-blue suit for the ceremony this week. The couple planned to honeymoon aboard Industrial Engineer H. G. Matthews' yacht, Almar II, after a while head for Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, home of New York's mayors...
...STRANGE LIFE OF CHARLES WATERTON (231 pp.) - Richard Aldington -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
During the campaign, O'Dwyer and slender, pretty Sloan Simpson, thirtyish ex-model, had willingly and smilingly posed for photographers wherever they went. To a reporter who asked if a wedding was in the offing, O'Dwyer had coyly replied: "I'll discuss that after election." Then, leaning back in his chair, he had whistled Some Enchanted Evening...
Yearning for a little post-election privacy 59-year-old Bill O'Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that...
Love Walks In. Bill O'Dwyer paid no attention. Instead he introduced Love into the campaign, by admitting that he was sweet on a handsome brunette style consultant named Sloan Simpson. When asked if they were to be married, he beamed and whistled the opening bars of Some Enchanted Evening. The results were spectacular. The newspapers bloomed with pictures of the smiling couple, and ran columns of saccharine speculation on the great romance...