Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the explanation of this war given by "Boogaloo" a happy-go-lucky Negro as he talked with my husband. Here...
...Berlin's swank West End shopping section, the proprietress of a bakery whose husband is at the front celebrated by giving away all her bread and cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread...
Skylark (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by John Golden) ushers in the season's first drawing-room comedy. It is a triangle play about the husband, the wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and the advertising agency that has the husband bewitched. Says the wife: Choose between me and your job. He chooses her, becomes her dream man again. Then he breaks his word and takes another job; but this time, for reasons Playwright Raphaelson keeps piggishly to himself, it's hip hip hooray with the wife...
...Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches of good will. That man pays lip homage to my husband and surveys around him the destruction of the Marshal's life work. . . . Poland fought to the last. If it had not been for Russia's stab in the back we could have held the Germans. ... I am proud of the way in which my country behaved in the hours...
...Bullet Has Went." The poetical effusions of the late John V. A. Weaver, husband of Actress Peggy Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...