Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the divorce court. Roosevelt once said that the way to obtain the repeal of an unpopular law was to enforce it. . . . If your wife is discontented, let her read Divorce and realize that it is something more than a simple and convenient easement of the bonds. If your husband seems to be wavering, let him read in these pages the misery, the heartaches, the legal dangers, to the end that his sanity may return to him. . . . It will be by no means dry reading for the public. These are human documents . . . by no means without their humorous side...
...typical case reported by Divorce was that of Mrs. Celia Firestone who saw her husband enter the apartment of another woman in the Bronx. Such items, so common in divorce cases, are dull reading. But Divorce also told how a husband complained in court that his wife had not taken a bath in two years; how a wife complained that her husband had made her sleep in the chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work...
...other editor, John D. Lawson, 42, Dartmouth graduate, husband of a sculptress, had been an idealist-propagandist-publisher in Westport, Conn.* He was respected, if laughed at, by his neighbors. Then he insured his life for $75,000, picked up a family-less boarder in Manhattan, took him to Westport to paint the Lawson house, drugged him. Mr. Lawson went out to chat with a neighbor, taking care to establish the fact that he was going back home to spend the evening. Then he set fire to his own home and left for Manhattan. The police were to find...
Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE BACHELOR FATHER...
Married. Thomas Benedict Clarke Jr., retired banker, onetime (1916-23) husband of Actress Elsie Ferguson, of Manhattan; to Mrs. Camilla Gaucher Sanborn, of Manhattan...