Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Multiple Bruises. In Los Angeles, Marie Waterman, who caught her fingers in a window while she was naked, and was rescued by a stranger, sued her landlord for $10,000 damages to her hand, $2,500 damages to her modesty.
A Garter. At week's end, Sherm was waiting to fight back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of...
Listening Post. In Washington, William O'Brien sued for divorce, complained that when his wife felt like nagging she hid his peg leg to keep him from walking out on her.
Recount. In Waukesha, Wis., indignant Audrey Shefloe sued for divorce; she had discovered, said she, that her husband had two fingers missing on each hand.
Juicy Item. The faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by...