Word: helpmeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways, Martha was a fine helpmeet. When one of Ray's many wives-a Mrs. Myrtle Young-went to the Chicago cops and complained that Ray had taken her savings, steel-nerved Martha stood behind her and winked significantly at the desk sergeant. The sergeant advised Myrtle to see a psychiatrist; she died soon afterward of a cerebral hemorrhage...
Svelte, brunette Fiorenza Drew is the kind of helpmeet ambitious politicians pray for. An attractive mother of two, and one of Canada's best-dressed women, she is as handy before a microphone as she is before the kitchen range. Last week when her husband, new Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew, set out to stump for himself and his party, Fiorenza, as usual, went along. They tackled Quebec first, a province where the party is weak and where a lot of selling needs to be done. Fiorenza pitched...
Many of the women had spent years fighting for Communism as members of the party, among them Bulgaria's Tsola Dragoicheva and Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez (sturdy helpmeet of France's Communist leader). A self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always...
...Helpmeet. In Springfield, Mass., Ralph Baughn's sentence for hacking at his wife with a carving knife was suspended when she explained to the judge: "He was only playing around like husbands...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...