Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was...
Complaint. In Indianapolis, Charles Z. Bondy, who said he was the great-great-grandson of a white girl reared by the Miami Indians, sued to recover Indian land taken by the State, asked $10,000,000 damages.
Bob Burns, bazookist, was sued for $32,738 by Paramount for not going to work in a movie called Joan of Arkansas. Arkansan Burns dubbed the script "disgusting," commented: "All they know at the studio about Arkansas is what they see in the cartoons of a magazine that sells for...
Blitz on Bauxite. In eight years, the President had taught Adolf Hitler nothing; but he had learned plenty from the Führer. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana was as quick, cool, and as foresighted a step of getting to a vulnerable spot before the enemy seized it as...
Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years...