Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for divorce was Frederick John Perry, 29, famed British tennist, by his cinemactress wife, 31-year-old Helen Vinson (real name: Helen Rulfs Vickerman Perry). Her complaints: he not only used rough language but forced her to attend his tennis matches...
...Triangle Club wanted two pandas, unsuccessfully petitioned the New York and Chicago zoos for the only two in captivity. Replied Dr. William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park: "Your suggestion . . . raised my blood pressure to an alarming degree. You may have the loan of my wife's crown jewels, but the panda is out of the question...
...Philip Barry; produced by Eddie Dowling) is not, as the title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge...
Chapter 6. At week's end Mr. Bennett got a court order tying up a $100,000 brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long...
...Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby...