Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hutchins, a devoted husband, entered teaching because the vistas of his first position (Dean of the Yale Law School) looked brighter than the apprentice years of a practicing lawyer...
...were more sensible you might not be able to tell how far Gloria Swanson is personally responsible for what merit it has. As it is, you are interested all the time in the way her brilliant acting makes credible the overexcited story of a woman whose principles and weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot...
...London magistrate's court a Mrs. Albert Cratchitt, estranged from her husband, was being sued for nonpayment of bills. Trouble reconciled the Cratchitts. In the dock Albert Cratchitt, beaming, prosperous, appeared beside his wife...
Distinction: "To me the most important distinction between American and British women is the practice many American married women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
Thus it was an intellectual husband of a Doctor of Philosophy as well as a keen and forceful financier who presided over the most nerve-wracking crisis in U. S. business history...