Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. installment buyers were having the usual unhappy experiences. Kansas City and Detroit noted an increase in the number of attachments and garnishments. A typical example was a Kansas City housewife who was sued by a downtown department store after she had bought three dozen pairs of stockings, five...
Another litterateur, Mae West, was sued for $100,000 by two writers who claimed that she swiped their stuff for her play, Catherine Was Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex...
Time for a Protest. For a fortnight the city's two police forces had been seizing vehicles from each other. Last week the Communist police chief sued to recover an automobile which, he said, the West Berlin police chief had wrongfully impounded. Germans noted the disappearance of several men...
In Santa Monica, Calif., after nearly seven years of marriage, Cinemactress Jean Wallace, 25, who used to sing in nightclubs, sued Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 43, who used to be married to Joan Crawford, for divorce. But they planned to fly to Paris this month anyway to play opposite each other...
He campaigns steadily for compulsory national health insurance - which has led to frequent battles with economically orthodox medical thinkers and famed verbal brawls with Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Deutsch agrees with the A.M.A.'s scientific activities, cooperates with the association in...