Word: faithlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...
Today she still gets 1,000 letters a week. Her postwar mail is loaded with missives from faithless war wives, bewildered veterans, bobby-soxers who want to know how to grow up. Everybody gets an answer; in the case of suicidal correspondents it goes by airmail. Often it is the same answer ("Men are a selfish lot," etc.) that worked half a century ago. But the questions have changed, from "Should I help a gentleman on with his coat?" to "Is it all right for me to spend a weekend in Atlanta with a boy friend...
...Minnow, little Minnow, don't cry!" murmured Alexander Reither, whose "cream-colored piqué vest . . . revealed . . . the odd attractiveness that. . . made him a notorious breaker of hearts." "Loneliness," he assured Minnow, "is something you need not be afraid of! Not with your figure!" Minnow pocketed faithless Lover Reither's generous parting check, and burst into tears. "Oh, Alexander. . . .Oh, my darling, my Only. . . . Life is like a railway platform.... Au revoir, my dear...
Grace Moore's recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in little clich...
Grace Moore, returning from a U.S.O. tour of Europe (see THEATER), had an idea about faithless G.I. wives. Said the fizzy blond cinemactress and Metropolitan Opera soprano: "They ought to shave the heads of these women...