Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...place he read aloud Boswell's "Read this in your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched her husband chasing every young woman he met, who heard true rumors about his three bastards, wrote back briefly, beautifully, to tell Jimmy Boswell that she would marry...
...eight days Mrs. Sam Smith snuggled her newborn child to her, nursed it, found marked resemblances to her husband. On the eighth day she felt her strength returning. She discovered her suckling was a girl. Startled, she complained...
smarty who proves to his married friends that any wife will lose faith in her husband after finding in his coat pocket a note signed "Love, Helen," or "Kisses, Eleanor." Then the bachelor almost gets into a jam with his own fiancee over these same transplanted notes. There are a few bright chips of dialog but they are hidden under a bushel of small talk. The playwright, Owen Davis, is credited with having written more than 100 plays...
This is little less than a tragedy to the Japanese royal house. Girls in the Orient have no social standing or importance of their own; their position is always derived from the male, either their father or the husband they marry. Therefore, a girl may not succeed to the august throne of Jimmu Tenno, occupied by the present dynasty for 2587 years...