Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oscar Homolka, male star of I Remember Mama, was sued for divorce by his third wife, Florence, daughter of ex-Washington Post publisher Eugene Meyer. She said that he was cruel.
Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for...
Robert Donat, currently starred in Vacation from Marriage, was sued for divorce in London by Wife Ella after 17 years, three children.
The Scarlet Tree is Vol. II of Osbert's autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had...
* A reckless British reviewer once observed in print that the Sitwells were "literary curiosities . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." The Sitwells promptly sued for...