Word: alec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his standing with his constituents when he sued to obtain half the $400,000 yearly income of his wife, a sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten...
...Alec had written several novels, and one of them had sold as many as 15,000 copies. To get away from U. S. crassness -and expense-he had taken himself, his wife and their two sons to a Pyrenean village in the south of France. When royalty checks stopped coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw...
...poor time to return to the U. S. In Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything...
When Betsy found out about Alec's affair with a stockbroker's blonde wife, she decided on a quick divorce. Easy-going Alec agreed, but hoped to talk her out of it. On their private beach in North Wales one day he thought he had succeeded, made his resolutions to turn over a new page. But by that time his domineering mother had found out about their divorce plans and was already on the scene...
Meddling families and friends soon precipitated a hopeless mess. Alec ran off with the 16-year-old governess, had a child by her, finally married her apathetically after turning down Betsy's offer to come back to him. Betsy married her rich, aged, Socialist cousin Max. The children took sides, floundered precariously trying to adjust themselves to their parents' sorry conjugal relations...