Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Awful Truth" depicts Irene Dunne's futile attempt to divorce Cary Grant and win the custody of "Mr. Smith," a canine known as "Skippy" in private life. The interlocutory decree is granted, and "Mr. Smith" is treated with all the consideration recently shown Miss Gloria Vanderbilt, but Cupid has ninety days to make a comeback. These are packed into sixty minutes of hilarious entertainment, thanks chiefly to the dialogue and the capable acting of Miss Dunne and her four-legged friend. "Skippy," who appears more at home before the camera than when he played in "The Thin...
Venerable Mother Soong therefore told General Chiang that if he would become a Christian he could marry her attractive, Wellesley-graduated Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character...
Theory of this is that there are too many political parties in Rumania anyhow and endless bickering can be avoided only by giving whichever party is strong enough to win 40% unchallenged power. "Our system combines many of the best features of Democracy as well as Fascism," Rumanian courtiers are fond of purring. Last week they were aghast as King Carol's unpopular Premier George Tata-rescu's followers were found to have won only 38.5.% of the seats...
...Opposition has long denounced His Majesty's open flaunting in strongly anti-Semitic Rumania of a Jewish mistress notorious for selling political favors. But last week King Carol did not think of abdicating and Premier Tatarescu, although defeated, thought of a desperate measure by which he might yet win...
...seats, the Premier claimed they had won just over 40% of the popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...