Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce? William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, fisticuffer; from Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey, cinemactress; in Reno, Nev. whither he went for a "rest." Said he: "We've had a scrap. I might file a divorce action. ... It depends mostly on letters I've written to her. ... I want to patch the thing up. ... But I want a home, a family and family life...
...dream-Byrd whispered it to me before the tumult had subsided on his return from Paris; I've heard it from each of you, and yesterday Lindbergh and I toyed with it-a crossing at 25,000 feet; far above an unfriendly ocean; at 300 miles an hour; no fog, no ice. and a glorious sky overhead-well, not yet, but we hope, soon!" The flyers who lauded Dr. Kimball were well aware that his service to them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay...
...guilty if the prosecutor would promise him and Grate a quick execution, Prisoner Gibbons declared: "We want the quickest way out of this thing. The thing's been on my mind ever since the fire. We don't want to go back to the penitentiary. We've been there for nine years and know what it's like. It's not the prisoners but the officials we are afraid of. That's why we don't want to get a life sentence...
Last week, on the eve of the marriage of Operatic Actress Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, stars of David Belasco's Tonight or Never, Producer Belasco, filled with loving-kindness after three months on a sickbed, announced: "It was a case of love at first sight. I've seen many romances in the theatre, but none so fine, so oldfashioned, so honest...
Happily listening to whir of wheels and click of chips, Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno, survivor of the Old West, declared: "It's all nonsense trying to regulate people's morals by law. For eight years I've been trying to make Reno a place where everybody can do what they please?just so they don't interfere with other people's rights. Now we can do lawfully what Nevada has always done under cover...