Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned woman sang it. Then the lesser speakers began to warm...
...town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker, she hurled a handful of pepper into Mr. Hays's face (see cut, p. 20). "You lie, goddam you," she shouted into the microphone and fled before anyone could stop...
...Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...
...hard work, several lifetimes' invention behind him at 40. He had carried out a great adventure in building. But though Wright had freed domestic architecture he did not feel himself free. Making what provision he could for his wife and six children, he went to Italy with a woman named Mamah Borthwick Cheney. They were never married. Wright thus broke with personal convention as he had long since broken with artistic convention. On their return in 1911, he put all he knew of architecture into the building of Taliesin as a new home for them both. Changes of this...
...been back at Taliesin long before the house again burned down, this time destroying hundreds of valuable things Wright had brought from Japan. Again he rebuilt Taliesin. Then his second wife, Miriam Noel, left him. Before he was able to marry Olgivanna, the soft-voiced, Montenegrin woman who is his present wife, they and their baby were incredibly harried by the newspapers, the Noel lawyers and the police, who jailed them, once in Milwaukee. Wright could get no work, could earn no money. Taliesin fell into the hands of a bank and Wright got it back only when a group...