Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Showing. In Los Angeles, House Painter Edward L. Rice, being sued for divorce, was ordered by Superior Court to stop driving around his neighborhood with a sign on his car: "My wife is the meanest woman on earth . . ."
In 1895 a businessman (Panama hats) named Eloy Alfaro came to power, began a half century of Liberal Party control, marked by anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912...
SHADOW OF GUILT, by Patrick Quenfin (211 pp.; Random House; $2.95), has a hero who is both a stuffed shirt and a weakling. He hesitates to tell his wife, a beautiful, bustling, overbearing heiress, that he wants to divorce her and marry his secretary, a colorless, clinging type named Eve...
"Nothing," says Columnist Lucius Beebe, who became a steady visitor, "interrupted the continual tumult that was life at the Garden of Allah. Now and then the men in white came with a van and took somebody away, or bankruptcy or divorce or even jail claimed a participant in its strictly...
It had been an eventful five weeks since Ole Earl made his profane departure from Baton Rouge to be committed to a sanitarium in Galveston for treatment of schizophrenia (TIME. June 15). It had been an eventful eight days since Long forced his release from an insane asylum, made a...