Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: First I wish to inform you that I am not a subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension...
Died. Gregory Kelly, 32, actor (Seventeen, Clarence, The Butter & Egg Man), husband of Ruth Gordon, actress, now playing in Saturday's Children; of heart disease, after a six months' illness; in Manhattan...
...accompaniment of sniffles. Even today, strong men in the audience rise quickly after the last curtain to pull their hats down over their faces. Sophisticated younger people seem to be unaffected, probably critical of the necessity, on the part of a young lady who has deserted her husband, of going straight to harlotry and ether. This the heroine does, returning to France to see her boy whom she left 20 years ago. To save his reputation, she commits murder. The boy is assigned to defend her in his first experience as a trial lawyer. Release, recognition and death follow...
...told about being sent to see if Colonel Lindbergh had any "airdrome sweethearts" out on Long Island. She spoke with eagerness of visiting a jail which lodged a Brooklyn murderess "who killed her husband and now is sorry." One of her experiences, as she told it at length, was patly typical of the kind of education the Daily News gives its reporters and readers...
...woman in Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50¢ per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...