Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, Manhattan psychiatrist to the gentry (e.g., Marshall Field III, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll), sometime translator (He Who Gets Slapped), was about to be sued for divorce after nearly 27 years. In Reno to do it, wife Ray explained simply: "People change . . . he's changed. . . ."
Mental Cruelty. In Phoenix, Ariz., Frank Perkins sued for divorce, told the judge: "Well, your honor, on five occasions she hit me over the head with an ax. . . . If this keeps up, somebody's going to get hurt." Divorce granted.
Bedside Manners. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Vernie Fulton sued for divorce, complained that while she was sick her husband had: i) sent an undertaker to see her; 2) ordered funeral wreaths.
Lady Sylvia Stanley, ex-Lady Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks, sued her titled third husband for $14,732 of household pin money, which she now considered a bad debt (recently he filed a separation petition, charging adultery). A London court awarded her $431.60. Lord Stanley's attorney, Sir Patrick...
Joan Edwards, radio's Hit Parade singer, gave her husband a headache when she told the American Magazine's readers that her weekly earnings (reportedly $3,000) were three times his. His first wife promptly sued to have her $40-a-week alimony boosted to $250.