Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LaFollette as the father of Wisconsin insurgency, then it must certainly leave a tiny space for "Mrs. Bob" as its mother. Perhaps, like Mrs. John Shand in Barrie's immortal play, What Every Woman Knows, she used to put the subtle touch of genius into her husband's speeches. When he was tired she addressed his thou sands of campaign letters; when he was glum she cheered him. "Old Bob" died. His wife was left with his spirit, his political faith, his four children. The oldest, Robert M. Jr., went into the Senate. He has his father...
Secretly Married. Guy R. Bolton, 41, noted playwright, writer, divorced husband of Marguerite ("California Nightingale") Namara; to Mary E. Radford of New York...
...Gobel met Dr. Reed while selecting a suitable sepulchre for her first husband. He drew the plans. She paid $50,000. They buried the "Sausage King," married. The mausoleum romance was blasted by the untimely disclosure of a prior Mrs. Reed, undivorced, still living...
...Park Avenue husband follow, to find Nola brooding on the River in Tennessee, reclaimed by showboating, done with Manhattan's fussy little critics and glib nighthawks. She gives Kim the half-million and Kim anticipates her own Manhattan playhouse, where she can give Ibsen, Hauptmann, Werfel, Schnitzler, Molnar, Chekhov, "Shakespeare, even!" "We'll call it the American Theatre," she cries, noting as she departs that Nola, tall, erect, indomitable on the bridge of the show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands...
...prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns did settle in New Amsterdam in 1614, Mr. Van Dorn himself is capable of earning only $3000 a year...