Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said the husband...
...Eliza Simmons, widow, was one person. "I'll show you how to get justice!" was what she had screamed as she shot. At her home, Widow Simmons produced a rambling document penned by her, in which she declared war on the Utah Copper Co., for whom her husband had been a brakeman until his accidental death in 1910, and on "hardboiled" Judge Johnson...
Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check for $200,000, which he, experimenting as a publisher, paid Mrs. Julia Grant for memoirs of her husband, Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain was a founder of The Players, as was Augustin Daly. Another treasure of The Players is one of the finest theatrical libraries in the world. On the upper floor are Booth's old apartments just as he left them when he died there, a book of poems...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...