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Awakening. In Detroit, Mrs. Violet Formento got a divorce on her complaint that her husband had slept during most of their eleven-year marriage...
...Breaking Point. In Muncie, Ind., Lee Beaty replied to his wife's divorce suit by filing a cross-complaint and requesting the court to make her stop throwing stones...
Last week the East Bengal government took prompt steps to deny the charges: "Incorrect reports ... no such complaint . . ." In their anger, the Pakistani officials had failed to notice that the Statesman's fish story appeared in the column, "Seventy-Five Years Ago Today...
...blind fool!" cried Renfroe. "That throw hit me!" Ignoring the 6-ft. player's complaint, Umpire Montes, who speaks no English, stoutly repeated "Fuera." Thereupon Renfroe unleashed a right to his jaw and Umpire Montes was completely fuera...
While driving along a bumpy Texas road one day in 1936, Oklahoma Restaurateur Beverly Osborne and his wife began munching on their home-packed box lunch of fried chicken. When a piece of chicken slipped from her fingers, Mrs. Osborne let out a disgruntled complaint: "This is really eating chicken in the rough." Osborne brushed aside the complaint because he liked the phrase. He thought it was just the proper slogan to persuade Americans to eat fried chicken in public the way they do at home-with their fingers...