Word: violet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the final act of a tawdry drama played to the music of a jazz band last week in the Rose Room dance hall in Oakland, Calif. It shows a taxi dancer who was shot as she danced, and slumped to the floor, dying. Dark-haired Violet Watson, 35, wife of an Air Force sergeant, had been dancing for two hours with a 56-year-old steady customer who had bought a fat roll of tickets. Another taxi dancer overheard them quarreling: the man begged Violet to run away with him. When she refused, he fired a pistol from...
...first case under the new act came up last week in London's musty Strand Law Courts. British War Bride Violet Benner sued for a divorce from ex-G.I. Wilbert Roy Benner of Austin, Texas. The judge, noting that Mrs. Benner was getting free legal aid, said to her counsel: "You are making history." Reminding the judge that his client had gotten a cut rate under the act, Wilbert Benner's counsel added: "I think we both...
...Violet Attlee, 53, comely, dynamic wife of Great Britain's Clem, enrolled for training in the ambulance section of London County's civil defense corps...
Awakening. In Detroit, Mrs. Violet Formento got a divorce on her complaint that her husband had slept during most of their eleven-year marriage...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet...