Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look...
Marthe Hanau knows as much about French official corruption as anyone. A bulbous, masculine woman of strong character, she and her divorced husband founded the tipster sheet. Gazette du Franc et des Nations, in 1925, and sold $4,000,000 worth of securities to poor Frenchmen, eight of whom committed suicide when she was jailed for swindling and bankruptcy. For 15 months she sat in her cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went...
Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
...disease contracted in Africa or to a neurotic temperament. Before she finally collapsed she acted in three more pictures for independent producers. Since then she has been on Dr. Woodruff's hands. He is destitute. The Motion Picture Relief Fund contributes money for the young woman's support. Friends send baskets of food and money for medicine. Only time she leaves her room is when she is carried or wheeled to a beach. Always, indoors or out, she wears a veil over her eyes. Her doctor-father and medical consultants* believe that Edwina Booth suffers from some little...
...grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer. Do sea if any of the boys at Harvard aren't interested." A last smile and before we knew it. We were left with but a faint aroma to remind us of this amazing woman's presence...