Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governess Miriam A. Ferguson's prospects of escaping impeachment (TIME, Nov. 30, Dec. 7) brightened last week. To be sure one additional charge was leveled at her. The State Textbook Commission, of which she is chairman and of which her husband at her instigation was appointed clerk, recently made a contract for supplying all the spellers used in state schools for the next six years. The contract involves the greater part of $1,000,000. With four companies bidding, the contract was awarded to the highest bidder but against the advice of the Attorney General, who declared the contract...
This letter was given by Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of her husband, who died last July. Norton Perkins '98 was the possessor of an unusually valuable library, several of the more interesting books of which he had given to the Harvard Library before his death. Since then Mrs. Perkins has sent to the Harvard Library such of the remainder of her husband's books as the Library might think...
Count Lazlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and husband to the onetime Gladys Vanderbilt, arrived in Manhattan on the Acquitania. Ship-news reporters rushed up to him hoping for a felicitous utterance, since friends of Count Karolyi have credited the Hungarian Minister with inspiring the State Department's attitude toward the Karolyis, Count and Countess. The reporters blurted their questions. The Minister diplomatically replied: "The exclusion of that man is a matter for your State Department...
...small-town wife, tired of her husband, is the central character. The husband is equally weary. There appears the inevitable third angle to the triangle in the person of a beautiful, accomplished and slightly shopworn opera singer. Singer and husband fall on each other's neck. After some exceedingly interesting internal conflict the wife decides that she is not so tired as she thought. The husband wakes up with equal abruptness and peace is made. The opera singer-much the wisest and most worthy figure-is left in somewhat lonely splendor...
Next day Ignacio Zuloaga's portrait of Paderewski (including a sky of Zuloaga mauve, a grand piano, the eagle of Poland, and some law books on a stool) was exhibited at the Reinhardt Galleries. Mrs. Paderewski inspected it, apologizing for the absence of her husband. He had bruised his finger in the recital, she explained, and was confined to his apartment under the care of a physician...