Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last evening my friend Frank Hurburt O'Hara of the University of Chicago faculty called with another friend and during the course of our conversation, TIME was mentioned. O'Hara said, "A certain professor's wife tells the story that while she is away, her husband reads TIME but when she is home, he also reads the Saturday Evening Post." It was explained that his social (?) duties increased so greatly with his wife's departure that he relied upon TIME for all necessary information...
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, 55, twice a baron, twice an earl, divorced husband of onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, owner of estates totaling 19,685 acres, exhibited last week toward the proposed reforms an attitude of flippancy...
Josephine Baker, interviewed at the Folies Bergère, said: "My husband sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything. His father writes me the nicest letters, and his mother is right here in Paris stopping with us for a while...
...were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe in a limousine. They went first to Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife (who is also his cousin) then motored to the Prison Santé. There Mme. Daudet made arrangements to have her husband supplied with his favorite viands from a neighboring restaurant; and brought him, later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother...
...this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks the bleating lambs of whom he was once the gentlest...