Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...houses his wife (Dolores Reade, onetime Manhattan nightclub torch singer) and two small children (adopted). At table the comic is amiable but jumpy, frequently telescoping courses on grounds that he is a very busy man. He eats well, worries about his weight and his manly appearance...
...Oldtime chalk-faced Comedian Harry Langdon's ex-wife asked a California court to O.K. a $60,584 judgement for unpaid support, previously granted in New York....Dorothy Lamour left for Hawaii on the same boat with friend Gregson Bautzer; both denied they'd marry in Hawaii....Torch Singer Lillian Roth's husband drew six months in jail for blacking her eye; she said he had also broken her jaw while courting her....Peggy Shannon's husband shot himself sitting in the same chair in which the redheaded ex-Follies beauty was found mysteriously dead last...
...John Milton Potter, a flashlight symbolizing the torch that has been dropped by his mighty colleague, Samuel Cross, that he may continue to bring light to the dark recesses of the clubwomen's minds...
Winston Churchill's redhaired, green-eyed actress daughter, Sarah Churchill, last week showed that she possesses, in a diluted form, some of the same eloquence that characterizes her eminent father. She composed a wartime torch song...
Annie takes up the torch of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst after Cork burns down her schoolhouse. Eager to bring Cork to trial, she discovers that women can't serve on the jury because they haven't the right to vote. Annie heads for Cheyenne and the legislature to change all that. Her fervor kindles the latent womanhood of a jaded cabaret queen, Elsie (Gladys George). It is no trick for Elsie and her chorus of fancy dollies, who are on kissing-cousin terms with the legislature, to get Annie's bill for woman suffrage introduced. Annie does...