Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60: Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, late of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment.
Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to...
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles.
Dec. In Salem, Ore., Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs."