Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Astor bore a son to her first husband, Robert Gould Shaw; has borne four sons and one daughter to her second husband, Viscount Astor...
...Last week they charged Mrs. Cora Hoffman, one of the jurors, with perjury. She had said, at the time of the jury examination, that she was unbiased, whereas she had told friends that she hoped to make matters unhealthy "for old man Ford." She had said that her husband was a plumbing contractor, whereas Mr. Ford's detectives found him to be the operator of a "blind pig" (saloon). According to detectives, she had held mysterious conversations involving palatable sums of money with a Jew named "Kid" Miller at the courthouse...
Died. Rosa Sucher, 78, famed oldtime Wagnerian opera soprano; almost penniless, at Eschweiler, Germany. In her years of glory she was appointed court singer and decorated by Emperor William I. The early failure of her voice was reputedly caused by the midnight suppers which she arranged for her conductor-husband's delectation. Once, at Beyrouth she ate a full bottle of anchovies between the first and second acts of Die Walkure...
...fact that all the actors and characters in this play are Negroes lends a flavor of piquancy to what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...
...country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably dead. The prospect of bigamy in the family, even though unintentional, rocks the Mardens to their skeletons...