Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Varicose Alleys." The Mayor, who would dearly love to impose his own fussy notions of morality upon all New Yorkers, stoutly defended his Commissioner, weaseled that Moss had not indulged in censorship, but had "only passed on the application for a theater license." Meanwhile Playwright Elmer Rice and Director Margaret...
From November 1942 to January 1944 Frank Hoch of Chicago was away from home, in the Army. When he was discharged and went home, he found his wife Lorraine two months pregnant. She told him his only rival was a test tube, but he sued for divorce anyway. Last fortnight...
Pay Dirt. In The Bronx, Aaron Hulah, 65. sued his landlord for $35 damages, testified that he had been barred from taking a weekly bath in the house tub, was thus forced to take 52 round-trip subway rides (a total distance of 1,500 miles) to public baths on...
It's About Time. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., Ora Stumpff desperately sued a jeweler for embezzlement in a final attempt to get back his watch, which had been on the repair shelf for 23 months.
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million...