Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week the good lady's name appeared thrice in print but she was not married, nor, happy to relate, was she buried. None the less she emerged momentarily, if not by her own seeking, from the voluntary obscurity in which she has enveloped herself since the death of her husband. On the one occasion she and her stepdaughter, Alice Longworth (with whom she had been staying at Washington), called on Mrs. Coolidge (vide supra); on the other, she was called upon at Sagamore Hill by half a hundred admirers of the late President who had journeyed to lay an evergreen...
...produced only spasmodically and with ill success of recent years. His present contribution is gruesomely numbered with the growing list of entertainments at which first night audiences have this season tittered. It tells of a business woman who grew very rich and remained nevertheless faithful to her inefficient husband...
Died. Sergei Yessenin, poet-husband of U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, a suicide at Leningrad...
...score of years later. There are the same children?grown up? at a house party. There is Phyllis, the wife; there is George, her husband (and who is he but little Martin grown up?); there is Joyce, the little girl whom Martin liked? and besides there is Martin, in body a man but really little Martin never-grown-up. Then begins the game of "Spies." Martin, the child, sees them, their petty annoyances, troubles of the spirit and of the flesh brought on by the loss of childhood's simplicity, and his meeting them with that simplicity puts them...
...story of desire under the Elevated, in which the husband wants to be an Elk and the wife a movie actress-both failing ignominiously...