Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
...Leningrad the notorious "imagist poet," Sergei Yessenin, onetime husband of famed danseuse Isadora Duncan, slashed his wrists with the gesture of suiciding Roman Caesars and hanged himself...
...departure of M. Yessenin for Moscow in the custody of two private detectives employed by his wife: "Everybody knows my husband is crazy. ... He is better off in Russia where he is loved even if he is foolish. ... He can smash things in Moscow and nobody cares because he is a poet...
Upon learning of his death: "He was really still my husband. . . . One of his last poems was dedicated to me, 'To Isadora, alone worthy of being loved by a poet. . . .' He must have taken his life during a fit of passing madness. . . . Still, he had a distaste for this materialistic world. . . . His poems were about things like horses and clods of earth and revolutions. . . . My consolation is that they will survive his tragic death...
...adherents of Pirandello might dispute with some acidity, particularly on the basis of Signer Nicodemi's two plays this season. Stolen Fruit (TIME, Oct. 19) was the fair first and this is the bad second. It is a play of mother sacrifice for an unnamed son of her husband, whom she came to hate when the intruding offspring grew up to oust her own firstborn from his inheritance...