Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the corpse of his 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Carr Taylor, "most beautiful woman in two counties," had been found with a bullet through the heart and his .45 calibre revolver lying nearby (TIME, Nov. 23), 60-year-old Henry H. Denhardt, onetime Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General of Kentucky, declared he had not fired a gun for six months. He suggested suicide. Paraffin tests for traces of nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired...
...Taylor had gone up the road to look for her glove. Few minutes later two messengers from town had driven up with a new battery for the General's car. "Mr. Denhardt said," continued Farmer Baker, " 'My, my, ain't that awful? She was the finest woman I ever knew.' While they were fixing the automobile, he said that several times...
...Marx Brothers. ''Mrs. Simpson is associated with a figure beloved by the American people," said cautious Director Wood in Hollywood. "It would be professional suicide," continued Mr. Wood, "for a comedian to make a national hero the subject of any joke." †The kneeling figure of a woman much resembling Mrs. Simpson is at the centre of a Department of Justice mural inscribed, "The Sweatshop And Tenement of Yesterday Can Be The Life-Ordered-With-Justice of Tomorrow." A tenement family at a round table is shown in the fresh-fruit-&-after-dinner-coffee stage of the future...
...opinion of dictatorships, showed a gawping creature with the Roosevelt smile, Mussolini chin, Hitler brow and mustache, waving a flag composed of the Nazi, U. S. and Japanese colors. Below him an officer in Mexican uniform with a calf's head was dancing with an Indian woman...
...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...