Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME; found out all I wanted to know. Especially interesting to me was your write-up of the Dole Flight, but you made two mistakes: that Mrs. Jensen was a small woman, and you misquoted her-as did all other papers-upon the arrival of her second-prize-winning husband. Everyone, especially Mrs. Jensen, was expecting Martin Jensen in first, as last reports had indicated that he was leading. Even after Art Goebel's plane had been sighted in the distance, the eager crowd thought it was Jensen's machine. Mrs. Jensen collapsed when she saw that...
...Busch inherited one-eighth of her husband's $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 estate. On their golden wedding anniversary-to which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...
Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
...white tiled maw. Seven hours later, at one minute after midnight, the motor vehicles for which the tunnel was built began to pass through from the New York and the New Jersey sides. In the second motor car to pay its toll fee*was Mrs. Clifford Milburn Holland, whose husband died as chief engineer of the tunnel. With her was Mrs. Milton H. Freeman, whose husband also died as chief engineer...
...approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing (hornpipes or foxtrots), mountain climbing. Her husband is David Davies, onetime secretary to famed Herbert H. Asquith...