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Word: tellesforo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage, Gracie says delicately, was "dissolved." Actually, she got a plain Reno divorce in 1928, lived to marry a New York investment counselor named Tellesforo Casanova. After a few years she wrote a novel setting Hal and the world to rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carol Kennicott's Story | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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