Word: warfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First book-form biography of Mrs. Simpson will be published this week under the title Her Name Was Wallis Warfield.* It also contains one of the "sparkling epigrams" for which Mrs. Simpson has a reputation. The epigram: "Soup is an uninteresting liquid which gets you nowhere." Almost an epigram was Mrs. Simpson's crack when British friends suggested and subsequently arranged that she should be presented at Court in 1931 to their King George...
...Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King-Emperor and Wallis Warfield Simpson...
With all U. S. picture agencies scouring their files for Early Simpsoniana, there came to light a snapshot showing that in 1912 in Baltimore the present Mrs. Simpson wore a monocle. In Omaha and Minneapolis scattered distant cousins of Wallis Warfield Simpson were routed out by reporters who found them unanimous in the opinion that "King Edward would be lucky to get one of the Warfields of Maryland," and that, "If you ask me, I think Wallis would make a good Queen...
...Pittsburgh last week fashionable clothes were being shown by Thelma, Lady Furness who introduced Mrs. Simpson, the onetime Miss Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, to H.R.H. Last week Lady Furness' sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, said: "Yes, Mrs. Simpson is a good friend of my sister and of mine. And I have also had the honor of meeting the King. We don't see why people ask us about them-really ! It makes my sister very...
...London firm of ship charterers, Simpson, Spence & Young. He married in 1923 and in 1925 was divorced from a Manhattan Social Registrite now in reduced circumstances, by whom he has a 12-year-old daughter Audrey. In 1926 he married the present Mrs. Simpson. She was Wallis ("Wally") Warfield of Baltimore and in 1916 gave her age as 22 when she married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., now commander of the U. S. Aircraft Tender Wright, from whom she was divorced in 1925. Thus the King and Mrs. Simpson are the same age, 42, and Mr. Simpson at 39 is ripe...