Word: zelda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
...Seeing so many men at one time is a blessing," smiles Miss Zelda Cushner, Vassar '48, looking up from her table at Widener. Zelda has inyaded the traditionally all-male library reading room under the protective wing of official sanction--a rare commodity among the fair sex--and is digging in for two months of solid work...
Last Puritan. In Detroit, Congregationalist Minister Albert Ziarko sued wife Zelda for divorce, complained that she smoked in front of parishioners, failed to dust his Bible...
Into a busy Brooklyn classroom last week stormed Mrs. Alice Thompson, colored. Before a frightened class of fifth-graders, she punched Teacher Zelda Meisels several times, hit her with a hand bag, slapped her, left her lying on the floor with possible brain concussion, internal in juries, hysteria...
...jail, Mrs. Thompson explained that her stepson, age ten, said the teacher had kicked him in the back. Friends of shy, timid Zelda Meisels said that was preposterous - she had merely scolded...