Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incoming Governor marched beside the outgoing Governess? who did not take his arm. The husband of the outgoing Governess marched directly behind them? with his youngest daughter, the wife of the incoming Governor hav-ing refused to march with...
...radiant bride of the Archduke Maximilian whose brother was Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary; at 23 Empress of Mexico, set beside Maximilian upon that throne by the Emperor Napoleon III of the French; at 26 a distracted woman, kneeling before Napoleon III, begging him to deliver her husband from the revolted Mexicans, crying when Napoleon III declared he could do no more: "My Fate is what I deserve! A granddaughter of Louis Philippe should never have trusted herself to a Bonaparte...
Thereupon she fainted, and, when she recovered was found to have lost her reason so that she did not know her husband was murdered a year later (1867). Mercifully unconscious of his death during the 60 years of her madness (up to her death at 86, last week) she was always expecting the Emperor Maximilian to reurn to her, would sometimes don court regalia in expectation of his coming, and say, "He will come soon. He will come very soon...
...Conductor Nikolai Sokolov of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, his wife (nee Marix) has said proudly: "Before he was twelve, my husband played in the orchestras of several Russian vaudeville companies that were better than the Chauve Souris." True to this honest origin, Mr. Sokolov is described as "playing poker?either stud or draw?when the boys come in for a game on a Saturday night, peel off their coats . . . and Mrs. Sokolov puts the coffee on to perk and fixes up a snack...
...Back in Manhattan after a five-weeks' countrywide tour in behalf of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A., of which I am chairman, I declared that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This is why movements appealing primarily to women receive few notably large gifts...