Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider issuing a new sort of postage stamp...
...Court (after rattling off the usual questions to establish the defendant's identity) : "And have you a husband...
...City were incensed last week at the act of an overscrupulous policeman who forcibly separated one Señor G. D. de Orihuela from his wife, as they were vigorously embracing in a public place. "We were waiting for a street car," said Señora de Orihuela. "My husband was about to leave me for some time...
Subsequently she appealed to the Attorney General of the Federal District for redress, declaring: "If a kiss between husband and wife is illegal, the law is not consistent with the liberalism now prevailing in Mexico...
...upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written two decades ago, in the era that demanded of the theatre a Big Scene with plenty of soft sweetness sandwiched in and around. The heroine steals from a wealthy, extravagant friend, in order to dress so well that her husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose...