Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except babies, speaks nine languages, all of them except his native German with a heavy accent. He is a hard man to work for. The story goes that when Writer Irwin Shaw was working on Waterfront, his wife awoke one morning at 3 o'clock to find her husband in the bathroom, shaving. What was he doing? "I'm going out to kill Sam Spiegel," he said...
Singing was made last summer in London, during one of Judy's recurrent Bad Times. Quarrels with Husband Sid Luft, a bitter custody wrangle over the little Lufts, and a whole catalogue of physical ills plagued her throughout the filming. For the fans, this foreknowledge will only give an extra dollop of poignancy to the plot-a bit of fiction about a famous American singer who comes to London to perform at the Palladium and, concurrently, to rekindle an old flame and win back an abandoned child. To other viewers, it may explain why Judy Garland at 39 looked...
...drawing room at 50 Holyoke Street, has held court. Hers has been a court of candid whimsy and grace which two thousand men of Lowell treasure among their Harvard recollections. For twenty-three years she has been the social overseer of Lowell House, while Elliott Perkins, her husband, has been its Master...
Mary Perkins possesses a sizeable quantity of the more endearing feminine virtues. In particular, she is a woman of wit: her candor and sense of humor are well known, and tales about her frequently zany remarks are freely exchanged by her admirers. Her frankness, if sometimes embarrassing to her husband, has always made her conversation enjoyable and worth remembering...
...talk of popular virtues does not divulge the whole of Mrs. Perkins' personality. She possesses a certain something else, a stately, august quality which is distinctly Parkinson: she has it, her husband has it, and while they've been there, Lowell House has had it. In inspires a sort of genteel personality cult and though quickly recognizable, is thoroughly indefinable...