Word: tresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake. Oliver, his eye on forensic laurels, foolishly took the job of defending him. Oliver's smoothly resentful colleagues tricked him into a felony, wrecked his career, drove him out of town. Carolyn would have gone with him, but he ran away from her. Author...
...Then she sued for separate maintenance, charging misconduct with three women, vicious temper, vile language, character assassination. Crooner Vallée countered with affidavits reciting spicy telephone chats between Fay Webb and Garfield ("Gary") Leon, adagio dancer. Separated. John Gilbert, 36, film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt...
...pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances as much as possible, he had the floor waxed so smooth that no one could stand up. He was elected. His daughter-in-law and granddaughter are also members...
...funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase...