Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan last week celebrated by electing to its city council, its first alderwoman. She is not the widow of a politician. Instead she is a local political leader, the wife of a financier, the mother of five children, and a society woman. Her husband is John T. Pratt, Amherst '96, son of Charles Pratt who was one of the Standard Oil men; he is a lawyer, the director of a few railroads, and rates himself as a financier...
...months ago the proprietor of a small Italian resort glowed at the following tribute from the daughter of Frederick Ebert, late saddle-maker-President of Germany, and her husband, Doktor Wilhelm Jaenicke, son of the Kaiser's one-time bootmaker and now an attaché of the German Foreign Office. "Your hotel is so pleasant that we have temporarily forgotten that Hindenburg is President in Germany...
Voice from the Next Room: "Won't you feel strange getting into your husband's clothes for the fancy-dress party tonight...
Died. Mrs. Sidney Drew, 35, widow of the actor, sister-in-law of famed actor John Drew, sometime cinema actress for the old Vitagraph Co. under the direction of her husband; at Los Angeles...
...been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife. It is a sombre tale, told with great power and refinement and extraordinary grasp of the inward structure of the characters...