Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...Viscount Astor, husband of famed Nancy Astor, "first woman M. P." said recently: "A great many peers seem to regard the House of Lords as a male sanctuary or a golf club with membership restricted to retired Colonels. . . . They prefer to overlook that it is an assembly making laws for 40,000,000 people of whom half are women. . . . The House of Lords is the only public body which has not recognized that women have rights...
...must to all wives, a measure of disillusionment came, last week, to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the British Prime Minister. Her husband's rise to head the State may well have seemed to her, pious, devoted, the visible workings of the Higher Power. Tenderhearted, she learned, last week, that some 62 miners had been entombed during the night at Cwm† Wales, by a mine explosion. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were speeding to Cwm by motor. If the State could further the entrapped miners' rescue in any way, the presence of Premier Baldwin guaranteed every...
...heroine, a beautous chorus girl, is subjected to the usual rigors of the chase-the stock broker (Lewis Stone), the poor but honest hero (Lloyd Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...
PHILOPENA-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs Merrill ($2). Identical twin sisters are brought up separately, differently. Ten months after Celia's marriage, to which Cynthia could not go, she sends for Cynthia. Cynthia has no husband. Celia's husband is away. Will Cynthia please be Celia, just for 48 hours with no questions asked? It is very pressing. Very well, then. . . . Next day Cynthia (now Celia) clutches her newspaper. Celia (now Cynthia) is in a hospital, seriously smashed, unconscious. Ambiguous encounters, a detective, a furtive maid, mesh Cynthia-Celia in mystery. Apparently Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia...