Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sometimes an editor makes a name for himself by creating a great newspaper, and sometimes a famed man turning editor makes a name for his paper because of himself. Consider the case of James E. Ferguson, citizen of Texas (and husband of the Governess), and The Ferguson Forum. Few people, even editors, knew of The Ferguson Forum until it began to be spoken of in connection with assertions that Mr. Ferguson was using official stationery of the Governess's office to solicit advertising for his paper...
...story of desire under the Elevated in which the husband wants to be an Elk and the wife a movie actress-both failing ignominiously...
...players, Mr. Clive as the unfortunate Lovborg lived up to his excellent reputation. Miss Standing, as Hedda herself, we thought far better than usual but still lacking quite the poise to bring the house down or hold it spell-bound. Mr. Mowbray was Hedda's eccentric stupid husband. He played his part admirably...
...exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...
CHRISTINA ALBERTA'S FATHER- H. G. Wells-MacMillan ($2.50). Returning to a dilatory manner that he had before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...