Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have gone to his brother-in-law and asked for $5,000 as a pension for Mrs. Marshall, his brother-in-law is John D. Rockefeller Jr. But his sister's husband and his sister's father-in-law, potent though they be, were not more noted than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life...
...embraced his son, whom he had not seen for two years, "with tears in his eyes." The one-time Crown Prince "displayed his usual gayety." Later, Wilhelm's consort, Hermine, donned "a striking pink and black silk gown and a diamond tiara." Thus attired, she welcomed Herr Mendelssohn, her husband's chief banker, and many a titled Dutch and German guest to "a grand reception, at which all present were...
...Lady Diana edited Femina, a sheetlet with which admirers said she made and unmade fashions and politicians. The year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl...
...most interesting and important newspaper features ever printed, the World has been busy endeavoring to minimize its value. It is now seeking to insinuate by its news article that the memoirs were shorn of some of their interest by Mrs. Wilson's objection to having her husband's letters printed...