Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would suggest that any husband in such circumstances could employ with wrath-averting dignity the self-effacing answer Bassanio made to Portia's magnificent devotion of herself: "Madam, you have bereft me of all words."-Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene...
...Chicago, Estelle Taylor at? the Edgewater Beach Hotel, listened to her husband's beating. At the end of the story, or shortly after four men died near their loud speakers, she collapsed...
Leslie: "No, that won't be my retribution [to live with the devoted husband she had wronged]. I can do that and do it gladly. He's so kind and good. My retribution is greater. With all my heart I still love the man I killed...
...moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from sorrow this faithful husband, whom she does not love. Truth breaks her strangle hold in the tearstains of a tense last act. The earlier acts were smaller drama...
...this man Preacher Beecher seemed as splendid almost as God. To Preacher Beecher, Theodore Tilton's idolatry was comforting; even more comforting was the idolatry of Elizabeth Tilton. Often he would go to see this lady. Some times her husband was present; more, often not. At last Elizabeth confessed to Theodore a monstrous thing. Theodore Tilton, afterwards, was not so ready to bow down to Henry Ward Beecher; finally, after resentments had smouldered and gathered for five years, he brought suit against the clergyman for alienation of his wife's affection...