Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astute observer once remarked: "No man is a hero to his valet." Disillusioned feminists have substituted the word "wife" for "valet." Not so Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, who last week uttered an enthusiasm: "He is my husband; he is far too colossal a person to be encompassed in any single book...
...colossal husband in this case is Bainbridge Colby, Manhattan lawyer. In fact, history might have neglected Mr. Colby, had he not been needed by certain bigwigs. Mark Twain used him as a lawyer; Theodore Roosevelt needed him as Presidential booster in 1912; Woodrow Wilson made him Secretary of State for the final year, after two others had been tried and found disagreeable. Perhaps Mr. Colby used to say to his wife: "Now if I had been President Wilson...
...Colby had reason to talk of herself as well as her husband last week. She had published a novel* with a political twist. Some said she had used her husband as one of the characters. Hence, her "colossal" and emphatic reply, to which she added...
...year. Here and there one finds a woman capitalist like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron of the arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made their money by their own unaided efforts. Most...
...neat women of the City Club listened with attention. Mrs. Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with...