Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condolence to the German Embassy in Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall ever guard a precious memory of your husband who in following a common ideal gave me an opportunity of appreciating the high level of his views and the perfect loyalty of his character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann...
Among the Married. Playwright Vincent Lawrence has the sophisticated gift of disclosing serious situations in such a way that they provoke ironic amusement. A suburbanite husband (Frank Morgan) determines to purge his home of a golf champion who has been paying unwelcome attentions to his wife (Katherine Wilson). She conceals herself behind the parlor drapes to overhear his stern dismissal. All goes very well until the golfer pointedly reminds the husband that those who cherish their wives do not consort with Spanish dancers on the side. When he has gone, the curtains enfolding the wife never tremble. Their motionlessness...
These scholarships, which correspond to the Rhodes Scholarships for American university students at Oxford, were presented by Mrs. Henry P. Davison in 1922. They are in memory of her husband, and have as their aim the fostering of good will between the United States and Britain...
...playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical idiom. But it is not funny, either in itself, or in the manner of its predecessors...
...memorizing the Scriptures. Recovering, she became no sinful "great lover" despite the boastful penitence which she later expressed. When young Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...