Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
...wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when she is in view contentment spreads ; especially when she upsets the dinner service and makes her exit wrapped nobly in the tablecloth...
...made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying tax on the 10% that still comes to her on every record sold. The U. S. won the decision, took no notice of the fact that Mme. Gluck sings little now, but keeps house instead for her husband, Efrem Zimbalist and his worthy violin...
...colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then she watches her son grow up, go to war, come back to marry a frivolous pretty girl and tear up his father's fields...
...with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence of death for murder has been visited by two ghosts-the first, and apparently more important, that of Mr. Valentino, accompanied by the husband of the prisoner. This was in headlines, so that he who runs may read and return home awed by this public confirmation of the supernatural...