Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep) announced that she was wearing Mickey Rooney's engagement ring, but they "haven't made any definite plans for the wedding." Mickey's divorce from wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase, "Miss Birmingham of 1944" (No. 1 was Ava Gardner), becomes final in May; Martha's divorce from Pressagent A. C. Lyles becomes final in September...
Leave Curiosity. With his wife, the late Sophie Taeuber, Arp made cut & Daste abstractions for a while, "but the sun faded the colors. The spiders came. People sneezed and daubed at our work with dirty Angers. I was desolate, until I decided to introduce destruction into the work itself tearing it. But I went too far and then it was necessary to leave this period of curiosity and seek beauty, calm, the classic...
...even. Friends suspected that there were other reasons: that Dorothy Thackrey somehow felt that the Post Home News had failed to gain real national influence; that she was tired and bored with the workaday job of editing. Whatever the reason, Post readers would probably be spared any more husband & wife arguments in print...
...Wife: It has caused the only conflict we ever...
Awkward Age. In Texarkana, Ark., James W. Kimbrell, suing his 15-year-old wife for divorce, charged that she acted like a child...