Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers that I had 'unmistakably' kicked my husband in the shins while he was escorting the President and Mrs. Coolidge at a charity ball last December. That was slow newsgathering, I think...
...people insist on my having hobbies, I shall reiterate two. I like to put on long, black silk trousers and listen to my husband play the violin. He does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...
...Woodrow Wilson: "After six years' retirement from social life and after several pilgrimages to Europe, I am again active in Washington functions. I have not yet reconciled myself to going where political enemies of my husband gather. Friends have been urging me to re-open by spacious home and begin entertaining. Occasionally I am seen as the dinner partner of Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts...
...GREEN FOREST?Nathalie Sedgwick Colby?Harcourt Brace ($2). The "green forest" herein is a world of the spirit which Shirley Challoner entered one day at a concert with David Findley, a young doctor. Between them sat Shirley's husband, heavy and lit eral. Shirley and David could not have each other then because Shirley was going to have a baby. Years later, at the time of this story, Franklin Challoner is buried but his daughter keeps David and Shirley apart again. She drags Shirley to Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement...
Authoress Colby, wife of onetime U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, has publicly stated that her husband is not represented by any character in her book; that he is "far too colossal a person to be encompassed in any single book" (TIME...