Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III. King of Italy, after opening an art exhibition at Forli, last week visited the graves of the late village blacksmith and his wife: Alessandro & Rosa Maltoni Mussolini at nearby Predappio. Then His Majesty inspected the humble stone house in which their son Benito was born. After that he traveled to Rocca delle Caminate. Il Duce's country home. At the entrance Il Duce greeted his royal lord & master, talked with King Vittorio Emanuele alone for half an hour. It was the first time that any sovereign of the House of Savoy had honored a mere...
...swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement that she and Billy Rose, tiny producer of vast shows, would be married as soon as Jarrett and Rose's wife, Fanny Brice, secured divorces. Funnywoman Brice has not yet sued...
...Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays...
...support himself, wife and baby daughter, Elisha washed dishes for $12 a week, read copy on a newspaper, for years could not afford a new suit. His only money was tied up in a $1,200 savings account his great-uncle had started in 1899. One day Elisha's wife begged her father-in-law for this puny sum. Legend has it that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while...
When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...