Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today almost every French woman has her own personal family war work to do because she has a brother, fiance, husband, father or uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make toward attending to his neglected affairs. Thousands of French women are holding their husbands' jobs today as bus conductors, mail carriers, taxi drivers, and in stores and factories...
...woman dependent on a husband at the front receives 26? per day from the State if she lives in Paris, only 15? in the provinces. In Paris the allowance per dependent child is 12&3162;, elsewhere 10?, and a soldier at the front gets 22? daily pocket money...
While patient Mrs. Kuhn said she would stay by her husband, while the trial nodded on again, it was plain for all to see that loving the Führer in a foreign land had caused Fritz Kuhn a lot of trouble. Introduced as evidence were two notes by Mayor LaGuardia and Tom Dewey, written before Kuhn's arrest...
...Border. Next day a big limousine drew up near a little inn on the German-Dutch border at Venloo. At the wheel was a certain Dutchman named J. Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician, husband of a famous Dutch society painter, Mariettje van Rees, something of a getabout in Dutch circles; owner of a large house mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent. These two were posing...
Believe the Heart is the 497-page study -a good deal more interesting than the people it presents-of the slow maturing of Leda Fillmore, and of her relationships with 1) the memory of her dead husband, 2) her newborn son, 3) a difficult mother-in-law, 4) a wise obstetrician, 5) a somewhat crass young lawyer, 6) off-stage troubles in the steel company she has inherited. She marries the lawyer, who is inadequate as a substitute for her first husband, and wins the helpful advice and abiding friendship of the doctor. In the long run she is glad...