Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, Mrs. Baldwin hovered in her husband's background. She seems the "perfect wife" of Mid-Victorian days, submerging her personality in that of "my dearest husband," and busying herself in odd moments with causes unquestionably worthy. Her triumph was last week, that no smart anecdote or pert story was "hung" upon her name by the American press...
...Mother of King Michael]; that I am jealous of her; that I wanted the regency; that I even begrudged little Michael inheriting the legal right to the throne. These accusations are heartlessly false. I love Helene and her child with all my heart. They have been deserted by their husband and father.* Shall I forsake them in this solemn, trying hour when Michael is about to ascend the throne? No. A queen's heart has greater love than that...
...pause. The moment lengthened, and Marie of Rumania seemed in her stately mourning gown more than wronged and wholly regal. Then, as HerMajesty's mood shifted, she told the correspondents that as soon as the period of mourning for her husband is over she expects to revisit...
...This approximates the idea of incarnation included in the theosophical melange of beliefs. Mrs. Eddy had a son, George W. Glover, by her first husband. When the boy was nine years old, she was invalid and unable to prevent his being sent to the west by Dr. Patterson, her second husband. Thirty years later she met her son. He was a worldling, father of a family, unamenable to her teachings. Christian Scientists profess not to know his later history. If living, he is now 83 years...
...hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father under the old rooftree, moving about the house "like a restless fire." Natalia mistrusts everything but her child...