Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
That evening, Mr. Duvall ordered a burly police squad to guard "Mayor" Holmes's office against invasion by "Mayor" Negley. When "Mayor" Negley arrived in the morning, he found that "Mayor" Holmes had gone out for breakfast after an early morning vigil. Mrs. Holmes sat in her husband's chair, jealously immovable. "Mayor" Negley eyed her dubiously and loitered around the office. In his pocket he had a court injunction, temporarily restraining "Mayor" Holmes from functioning...
Estate, Will. Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan last week asked a Miami, Fla., court to explain ambiguities in the will & testament of her husband, the late Lawyer William Jennings Bryan. His estate added...
Investigation showed the woman to be a member of a patriotic society, the Miyazaki, concerned with obtaining female suffrage. She had, she admitted, been much irked when government officials had prevented her from voting by proxy for her husband. She, therefore, had resolved to ask the Emperor "with reverence" to accord patriotic women the same political rights as enjoyed...
...wife's bedroom with plans for the divorce melting in the pink mists of rediscovery. Claudette Colbert, adding to her role such an atmosphere of skillful sex appeal that she seems almost miscast as a lady, acts the wife as best she can; James Rennie, terse, the husband...