Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sigh for the attitude of their sister Church of England, which does not recognize divorce even in the case of adultery, much less marriage after divorce. The Church of England's lay head, Edward VIII. discovered that to his cost when he decided to marry Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson...
...dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...
...bridge to wave to a Clipper which soared overhead, and exchanged radio greetings with its skipper. Resting aboard the Clipper, unaware of the waving Duke, was Refugee Baron Eugene de Rothschild at whose Austrian castle Edward lived in seclusion after his abdication and before his marriage to Mrs. Simpson. In a suite of cabins aboard the Excalibur, enclosing a private veranda, the Windsors entertained the U. S. diplomats & wives privately, but often walked their dogs on the public decks. Old friends from Washington days are the Duchess and Mrs. Gordon. Years ago wealthy Alice, when she periodically returned to Washington...
Greatly relieved were the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester, who might otherwise have faced the prospect of entertaining the American-born, twice-divorced Duchess in London. No less relieved were English politicos who had uncomfortably listened to rumors of the former Wally Simpson's friendship for German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, heard reports that the Duke was willing to serve as a Nazi puppet king. Frankly delighted were the Duke's supporters who pounced on the chance to give him a job and a place to live safely out of the war zone...
...Grapes of Wrath (Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Eddie Quillan, John Qualen, TIME...