Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive order which reinstated Mrs. Bessie H. Smith in the Federal service in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was signed: "For charity. Calvin Coolidge." Twenty years ago, Mrs. Smith worked for the Government. Then she married. Recently her husband died, and she asked for her old job to support her four children and her mother...
...against the injustice being done to the fish peddler and the shoemaker. . . . Mr. Sacco went on a month's hunger strike. . . . Mrs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, wife of the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, turned over her Dedham home to Mrs. Sacco so that she could be near her husband and cook for him while he was in the Dedham (Mass.) jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that...
...once interceded and caused the card to be reissued. Said Herr President Loebe, after thus turning his wife's other cheek: "Newspaper men must not be punished merely for making humorous personal attacks." Observers thought that if Frau Loebe does sometimes eat with her knife, her husband took a shrewd course to stifle the report...
...work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity she can command for a repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late for choir rehearsal, she locks him out of the house. When Benjie defends his conduct...
...pleasant departure from the lucubrations of Mr. Hecht's rather sleazy males. But Mrs. Taylor's actual material is like nothing so much as 17 more chapters in Mr. Hecht's 1001 Afternoons. It consists chiefly of a mauve Fatima who may and may not have poisoned her preacher husband, and of Crystal Clemente, the mauve one's daughter, who does penance for frequent flights of sex-honesty by outfitting an old ladies' home with white lace shawls and caps, by giving Dunhill pipes to hoboes...