Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that the game referred to in the title is none other than the old-fashioned badger game. But in the midst of the machinations the girl-crook decides that, however profitable it may be, the badger game isn't cricket. Unaccountably, she has fallen in love with the husband whom she had married for profit. In the last act she turns her dishonest companions over to the police, recaptures from them some of the money she has hornswoggled out of her husband, and prepares for a legitimate honeymoon. As a bad badger player, Irene Homer is a capable actress...
...honkytonks, the cheap sports stopped talking and stared at her with the impudence fading out of their faces. A few years later, called Gilda Gray by that time, she went into the Ziegfeld Follies in Manhattan. Since then she has toured the U. S., acted in cinemas, allowed her husband, Gil Boag (against whom she has recently filed charges in a suit for divorce), to advertise her as well as any woman has ever been advertised...
...John Gregory's sturdy female, snatching a musket from her moribund husband, although this one ran second in the balloting and won first place in three cities. Instead, it was Bryant Baker's striding figure of a woman whose skirts are blown backward in a prairie breeze, who carries a Bible in one hand, leads her scampish belligerent little boy with the other. This had received most votes in eleven cities; by far the largest total out of the 123,000 votes cast...
...story was one of those commonplace scandals so often current in this day. Told in public by lawyers for Mrs. Doris M. Kresge who is suing her husband, Sebastian Spering Kresge, for a divorce, it related an alleged instance of misconduct performed in Manhattan by S. S. Kresge and one Gladys Ardelle Fish. But the shareholder was certain that the charge was untrue. Himself morally immaculate, he had made sure that the head of the company in which he was about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known...
...Manhattan last week a parterre box at the Metropolitan Opera House bulged with importance. It held all the Homers, husband, son and daughters of Contralto Louise Homer who that afternoon was not Louise Homer at all but Amneris, Egyptian princess in Verdi's Aida. For the Homers it was a memorable afternoon: for Composer Sidney Homer, her partner in music; for Louise Homer Stires,* herself a singer; for Sidney Homer Jr. and his wife; for the twins, Anne Marie and Katharine, 20, and for Hester Makepeace, 16, who could remember years ago being taken by their nurse to watch...