Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: When a man criticizes a married woman who has gumption enough to earn a living for any reason at all, and usually she does so to support her orphaned children or to complement her husband's earnings while she at the same time competently conducts her household?then such a woman (as I am) can discuss the economic needs of her work...
...City Magistrate's courts, New York City, who said that every New York child who was at all acquainted with his neighborhood could direct one to a speakeasy. The committee listened with particular keenness when she told the tale of a woman who had been deserted by a bootlegger-husband and then turned bootlegger herself, much to the material advancement of her children...
...years ago she sang in Paris, later in London, Rome, South America. For more than three years, impresarios have been trying to lure her to the U.S. Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni, persuaded her, would she set sail? she and her three maids, eight dogs and 42 trunks in an entourage reminiscent of Sarah Bernhardt, who once heard her sing in private and told her she would some day be "as great as I think...
Meller has been married. Gomez Carillo, her husband, was a powerful South American journalist. Jealous of her success, he had her arrested and almost succeeded in having her detained in an asylum for alleged insanity. The Pope annulled their marriage. She pronounces her name May-aire, but Manhattanites say Meller...
CRAIG'S WIFE ? The portrait of a lady who so worshiped her home that everything in it was a museum piece except her husband...