Word: sonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baines, the butler, Ralph Richardson does a very capable job of acting the part of a man over-whelmed by the misery of his marriage, and not strong enough to fight his way out of it. Sonia Dresdel, as his wife, is adequately hateful...
Married. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 45, British-born political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four'); and Sonia Brownell, 30, an editor of London's highbrow literary monthly, Horizon; he for the second time ; in 'a London hospital where he is suffering from tuberculosis...
...Britain's political Satirist George Orwell, 46 (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four), long ailing with tuberculosis, announced his engagement to Sonia Brownell, 30, assistant editor of the highbrow Horizon, for which he has written an occasional article. No date was set, but friends hinted at a hospital wedding...
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...
...sued Sonia for divorce. The justice in the case, the Hon. Sir Hubert Wallington, saw no cause to doubt the Major's testimony that Sonia and Chisman had been in bed together. But, on Sonia's testimony that there had been no misconduct, he denied the divorce. After all, as he explained, "I have seen the wife and Chisman, and know their ages and antecedents. They have nothing in common except their mutual interest in horses...