Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women are a group of New Yorkers, rich, idle, disillusioned. They include a novelist a perennially pregnant matron, a thrice-married dowager, an innocent, and two not-so-innocents. In the dozen episodes that make up the play one sees them moving in their little world, giving their ideas on men and marriage, with servants and hairdressers and mannequins also contributing their distorted little philosophies...
...hawk. He slaps no backs but never forgets a name or a face. At home in his six-storied London house he claims London's biggest private telephone bill. His work day begins at 5:30. Stopping only for snacks, Augur swiftly turns out his well-turned, exclusive, thrice-a-week Diplomatic Letters, restricted to 72 copies, over which every embassy in London pores. Poliakoff is equally proud of his weekly piece for the provinces, his occasional cabled stories to the New York Times. Somewhere he finds time to write books as varied as The Tragic Bride and Soviets...
Died. John Wing Prentiss, 62, investment banker, one of the senior partners of Hornblower & Weeks; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Influential in much automobile financing (Dodge, General Motors, Hudson), he told the Board of Tax Appeals in 1927 that he had thrice offered Henry Ford $1,000,000,000 for Ford Motors. He died the day after the New York Stock Exchange adopted its new constitution, which he helped draft...
...Gallup Poll last January), seem the victim of an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In San Quentin jail. Convict Mooney has come to see himself clearly in the role of the nation's No. 1 martyr. In his 21-year fight to prove his innocence, Tom Mooney has thrice emerged from San Quentin to tell his story of the bombing to California courts in San Francisco. Last week, he made his fourth and longest excursion, this time to tell the same story to the California State Assembly...
Divorced. Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand, 27, thrice-married daughter of thrice-married Mrs. Joseph E. Davies (wife of the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium), granddaughter of Cerealman Charles W. Post; from George Curtis Rand, 27, Manhattan socialite; in Reno...