Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis no local woman has been the subject of more newspaper columns or more shocked social chitchat than lively, red-haired Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, whose father was a Baptist minister and whose brother is a Judge of Missouri's Supreme Court. Until three years ago few St. Louisans knew much more about Mrs. Muench than that she lived comfortably in fashionable Westminster Place with her respected physician-husband and that she once operated a fashionable midtown dress shop that catered to society trade...
Then Federal prosecutors took action. Charging use of the mails to bilk wealthy Dr. Pitzman, they brought Mrs. Muench, her husband, Lawyer Wilfred Jones and a woman friend named Mrs. Helen Berroyer to trial. Convicted, tear-choked Mrs. Muench last week stood up before stern-faced Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis' U. S. District Court and brought her hoax story to a dramatic end. Sobbed...
...Roosevelt made the 12,000-mi. Buenos Aires round trip in unaccustomed and unexpected obscurity on the inside pages of even the most earnest U. S. dailies while their most prominent news columns and largest headlines went to the Woman of the Year (see col. 3). The President was more than ever the Man of the Year of the Americas, and his happy appearance on the Buenos Aires scene was enough to reap millions of responsive Latin smiles. After he sailed home, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, by his courtly modesty and winning character, achieved more than the State Department...
...time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German troops. He finds Armand mad, his wife an old woman. Piling his family into a passing wagonload of corpses, he carts them to safety, only to have Renée and Armand killed by a chance shell far behind the lines. Pierre goes as crazy as the rest of his family, babbling that he is a deserter while his daughter...
Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...