Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Longtime U.S. foreign service officer, musicologist (The Agony of Modern Music), and urbane husband of Virginia Pleasants, whose skill on the harpsichord was noted by TIME...
Divorced. By Francoise Sagan, 27. onetime prodigy of French letters; Second Husband Robert Westhoff, 32, American expatriate sculptor; after one year of marriage, one child; in Paris...
...long been Borden's trademark. Yet even Elsie has diversified, in a way. Thanks to the uniform color and appearance of Jerseys, Borden's uses several Elsies (one at a time) to tour the U.S., has also put Elsie's family to work: Elmer, her husband, is the trademark for Borden's chemicals...
Catholicism reinforced her temperamental prudery. It seemed incredible to her princely in-laws, but she did not know what all Rome knew-that Prince Rico, her husband, had lived throughout their marriage in devoted adultery with a Principessa Giulia Monfalconi. She created a tremendous fuss when she found out, decamped with her daughter Constanza to lead a diminished but still sumptuous life in London, and went into a huff that lasted the rest of her life...
...grows up believing that Papa's unmentionable crime was some dark, monstrous Byronic business. When she finds out that Mama's big Mad Scene had been over nothing more than poor Papa's peccadillo, she is unimpressed-particularly as she is already giving her aristocratic English husband a bad time, not because she won't put up with his love affairs, but because, sophisticated and all that, he just can not put up with hers. So Constanza is left with her daughter Flavia, who at the age of ten shows similar signs of wit and wantonness...