Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have lived in Bakersfield seven years; my husband for 15. We are agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...
North Carolinians assembled in an auditorium at Charlotte one evening last week to see and hear what sort of person was Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the woman whom Wyoming elected three years ago to fill out her deceased husband's term as Governor (1925-27). Mrs. Ross soon demonstrated her femininity. Down an aisle, terrified by the surrounding forest of North Carolina feet and ankles, scampered a mouse. "If I appear a bit disconcerted," shrilled Mrs. Ross, "It's because a woman may be a governor but she's always afraid of a mouse. If it comes...
...should establish a Marriage Bank. Purpose: to loan 10,000 lire ($527) to each laboring bachelor of good standing who may seek such a sum in order to marry, set up housekeeping, beget. Finanza proposed that repayment of the loan be made "automatically by a monthly levy on the husband's wages...
Other funny plays: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...