Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once removed, handsome Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor had little confidence in herself, often broke into tears for no clear reason. She was afraid of the nurses who took care of the six children who arrived in ten years, resented her mother-in-law's attempts to dominate her husband. "I do so want you to learn to love me at least a little," she once wrote Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had opposed the marriage. She concentrated on her growing family, took little interest in her husband's election as a New York state senator, was only dutifully...
...Green discussed the idea with Julia Barrow, wife of Charles A. Barrow, a former machine-tool maker. She had an incurable brain tumor, and shortly before her death in 1959, she asked her husband: "Why don't you go ahead and give Dr. Green his institute?" Barrow came out of retirement, donated more than $1,000,000 of his own money and raised $2,000,000 more to found the Barrow Neurological Institute...
Playwright Hayes writes the kind of dialogue that turns English prose into watered stock. At one point, Cotten's wife says quiveringly to her husband: "The ground's shaking under us all, Julian.'' What she means is the play...
...Part II Michele Morgan is valiant and pure as a woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...third filmlet concerns one Gabrielle Fenayrou, who, while never bloodying her pretty hands, was the muse for two murderers. Gabrielle lives with a gouty old husband and keeps a handsome young lover. One afternoon while tangoing (the year is 1913), he tells her he is betrothed to another-but, with true Gallic practicality, assures her that this need not interrupt their dalliance for a moment. Gabrielle, combining sang-froid with S. Freud, goes along with this, and together they plot to kill her husband. But the lover's pistol only clicks, and the husband shoots him instead. Gabrielle...