Word: divorce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...
...Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 29, formerly Divorcée Mayme Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions...
Like Samuel Johnson, the first great English lexicographer, Emily Post, the first great lexicographer of U. S. manners, had the opportunity of imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today...
...Divorcée Post's opinion on divorce 30 years after: "The epidemic of divorce which has been raging in this country for the past 10 or 15 years must be rated with floods, dust-storms, tornadoes and other catastrophes...
...Divorced women greatly prefer to marry bachelors. For alternate choice it is a toss-up between widowers and divorc...