Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Clarissa Curtis Cantacuzene, 39, divorced wife of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Chicago socialite real-estate man, son of Grand Duke Nicholas' aide de camp, great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant; by her own hand (gas); in Manhattan...
Last week there was little likelihood of Sir Kenneth Clark making a visit to Milan to authenticate a new da Vinci. Sir Kenneth moved his handsome Scottish wife and three children to the country, closed their beautiful house at 30 Portland Place, took rooms in Gray's Inn. As Surveyor of the King's Pictures, Sir Kenneth has the duty of guarding the royal collections at Buckingham Palace, Windsor and Hampton Court. It was a busy week...
...harassed King Li-Hsi of Chosen (Korea) signed away the mineral rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
Columnist Skolsky has a wife smaller than he is, and a love for Hollywood because it is the only place he has ever gained weight...
...that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where he could make a fortune. His jokes tried to conceal his ambition and his frustration...