Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upstairs to borrow something to read from one of the other girls. In a detective magazine she had seen a picture of 29-year-old Robert Irwin, former insane asylum inmate, sculptor of sorts, wanted in Manhattan for the horrible Easter Sunday murders of the beauteous artists' model Veronica Gedeon. her mother and a man lodger. "Why that looks like our Bob!" she exclaimed. She showed the picture to the other girl who agreed on the resemblance. Friday night she would show it to Bob. It would amuse...
...tabloid News, with front and back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures that day from 15 to 16, of which nine were nude or negligee views...
...Boston's long-legged Maribel Yerxa Vinson: the North American women's figure skating championship, held by Canadians since 1928; in Boston. Second place went to Toronto's Veronica Clarke, first place in the men's championship to Toronto's Montgomery Wilson. Seventeen-year-old Robin Lee failed to enter because of a knee injury sustained while he was winning the U. S. championship last month (TIME...
...Surgeons, but who, like her husband and their late good friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 26) owns considerable Manhattan real estate, promptly offered to erect a Museum of Surgery to house the College's offices, assembly halls, exhibits. The establishment will be called the Millicent V. (for Veronica) Hearst Foundation...
...That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed: "I'm just thrilled to death...