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Word: weds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough to go home when the party was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Mills summer session, where he teaches, but there are exceptions: suitcase-slapping Russell, a hot-jazz authority, composer and member of the Red Gate Chinese Shadow Players; Lou Harrison, 23-year-old composer and Mills faculty member; Russian-born Xenia Cage, his wife. Asked how long they had been wed, Cage quipped: "Five years, but I didn't begin practicing percussion on her until after we married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fingersnaps & Footstomps | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Professor Herbert Heaton, of the University of Minnesota, now visiting professor at Princeton, will give a free public lecture at Harvard Business School tomorrow afternoon (Wed.) on "Rolling Down to Rio, or a Merchant Adventurer in South America," at 4 o'clock in Room 120, Baker Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures On South America | 5/14/1940 | See Source »

...Myrtle Byram McGraw, 40, is a pretty, jolly woman upon whose slim shoulders rests the imposing title of Director of the Normal Child Development Study of the Department of Pediatrics of Columbia University. Four years ago she stopped teaching toddling moppets long enough to wed, contractually* for speed (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), Research Engineer Rudolph Frederick Mallina. She now has an energetic 3½-year-old daughter of her own, but still spends most of her time trying to find out what makes other people's infants tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toilet Training | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to be wed by the man who had married the Duke and Wally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Indecency | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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