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Word: husbandly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyment never abates over stories that her husband is a mystery. He is as transparent to her as any of the big White House windows through which venturesome owls, believing what they see in the newspapers, may fly in quest of nocturnal postgraduate courses in the art of appearing wise through silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lese Majeste | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...First Lady accepts her husband as he stands. She has her rows in private. Few have heard her complain in public of his lack of deference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lese Majeste | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...serve in the present Congress as a representative from Kentucky. He never took office. He was convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and is now in Atlanta Penitentiary. Last week his wife proclaimed that she would stand in the Republican primary in August for election to her husband's seat. She maintains his innocence, and (like Governess Ferguson of Texas) fights to vindicate her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Like Ferguson | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

CRAIG'S WIFE?About a woman who had less respect for her husband than she had for specks of dust on her polished floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

CRAIG'S WIFE ? The portrait of a lady who dusted her house so clean that her husband left it flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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