Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...
...love for the Republicans, not one good word for de Valera: "De Valera and degeneration are synonymous." As an outspoken enemy of the Irish Republican Army during the Civil War (1922-23), he was shot at, kidnapped, had his country house burned down. At that point he took his family to England for a strategic vacation...
After the march on Rome (1922), when Mussolini's blackshirts were persuading their fellow-countrymen to join the Party, the Silone brothers had to stop work on their labor paper. Ignazio took to the mountains, was sheltered by the Abruzzi, peasants for three years. His brother was imprisoned, died from a beating. Exiled near Zurich, Ignazio Silone now writes books about his native land which no Duce-fearing Fascist could possibly approve. In Fontamara (1934), in Bread and Wine Exile Silone yearns as bitterly over his redeemed country as all patriotic Italians used to yearn over Italia irredenta. Fascists...
Josephine Johnson's first novel, Now in November, took the 1935 Pulitzer Prize on points, for sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...
Meddling families and friends soon precipitated a hopeless mess. Alec ran off with the 16-year-old governess, had a child by her, finally married her apathetically after turning down Betsy's offer to come back to him. Betsy married her rich, aged, Socialist cousin Max. The children took sides, floundered precariously trying to adjust themselves to their parents' sorry conjugal relations...