Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bertrand Russell is young and pretty, and "The Right to Be Happy" (Harper) proved her circumspect Neither she nor her husband could faint the morals of the undergraduate for, if anyone believes the smart columnist, there is no morality, there is only good taste...
...works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on exhibition, while not so numerous as those of her husband, are equally valuable. Two of Mrs. Browning's works to be seen in the Memorial Room, "The Battle of Marathon," and "Essay on Mind," were written when she was still in her teens. One of her poems, "The Runaway Slave," is the rarest work in the exhibition, and a collection of her sonnets, privately printed in 1847, with a facsimile of a manuscript of one of the sonnets, is probably the most valuable. Two presentation copies of her works, one, "Casa Guidi Windows...
...minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...
Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, PARIS BOUND, THE BABY CYCLONE...
...peacocks!"?this to his adored wife, whom Author Maurois variously records as 15, 12, 14 years his senior. Affectionate, loyal, her garrulous naivete was the joke of London. In a conversation about Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) she asked his address to invite him to dinner. But her cultured husband remembered: "She believed in me when men despised...