Word: wente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Napoleon Bonaparte, 56, quit the Rock Island railroad maintenance crew after 29 years. A Chinese gentleman in Canton divorced all four of his wives for "differences of opinion." And a man in a Cleveland tavern got into an argument with the bartender over a glass of beer, so he went outside, drove his car through the plate glass window, and parked in front...
...prizes, which now go to all students who make Rank List I for the first time, went to 79 men. The Deturs winners will be presented with a book of their choice by the fund...
Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment makers. Soon she was designing new weaves and color combinations and plugging the fleecy fabrics that go into the "Stroock Look." She was put in charge of advertising and publicity; when war came she helped supervise the company's mill at Newburgh, N.Y., was made...
...told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been back and I haven't seen him since...
Respect for the law runs in her family. Says she: "My mother did just about the same thing, but she got married before she went through with...