Word: lilliane
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...insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton) and his tricky mistress (Lillian Bond). The type of hospitality to be expected in an establishment of this sort reaches its peak when the butler, who is queer when sober and mad while drunk, gulps down a bottle of gin and opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...
Engaged. Alfredo Codona, trapeze per, former, widower of Lillian Leitzel, famed. trapezist who died last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931); and Vera Bruce, a member of his troupe; in St. Louis...
...explained that she would have thrown it further if it had not slipped out of her hand. In the 80-metre hurdles she set another world's record of 11.7 sec. Disgusted at not being allowed to compete in the discus throw (won by Lillian Copeland of the U. S.) and 100-metre dash [won by Stanislawa Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh) of Poland], she was further disgusted when Jean Shiley beat her in the high jump (5 ft. 5¼ in.). Babe Didrikson was disqualified for "diving...
...resurrected saloon. Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter of the University of Denver. Then they all filed inside to see woebegone Actress Lillian Gish perform in the sad, sad story of Camille...