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Thenceforward Butte grew, its local economy joined in unbreakable wedlock to the price of copper, its pioneer past forever coloring its psychology, its rough-&-tumble legend becoming part of the legend of the U.S. Some of Butte's legend...
...Wedlock. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frank Nowels, married ten days, won a divorce when she testified that her husband had played basketball on Friday, golf on Saturday, baseball on Sunday, poker the rest of the week. In Manhattan, Mrs. Gesine Heitmann, who won a temporary separation from husband Charles in 1905, asked a court to make the separation permanent...
Take-Off. The history of the Civilian Air Patrol was like that of Orphan Annie : indifference from well-fixed people ; danger from villains; and a steady series of hair breadth escapes from sudden death. CAP had been born out of wedlock: argument and tears had wangled it out of the Office of Civilian Defense with grudging Army consent. CAP was a hybrid : semimilitary, semi-civil...
Taking up with his housekeeper, an illiterate but devoted peasant girl who was ostracized from the Mennonite Church for bearing him two children out of wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
Once again the screen presents the woeful problem of a settled married couple lifted from their wedlock by an unhappy legal circumstance. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is the story of a man and wife with marital tribulations of more than ordinary calibre. Decked out with an unusually insinuating script, and Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard to talk it up as they and few others could, it lacks only some action to make it one of the best bits of bedroom propaganda of the year...