Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among the members of High Society. Billie Dove, beautifully...
Fortunate indeed would any diplomat be to have her for a wife. But residence in Rome as the wife of a U. S. Ambassador implied no domestic upheaval for Alice Warder Garrett. It was her husband, John Work Garrett, with whom she was last week cruising about Italy, that President Hoover had picked for this prime foreign post. President Hoover prepared to congratulate himself on filling another major post with a man of quality...
...Fred Albert Britten, wife of Illinois' Representative Britten, going abroad on the Leviathan with her husband, was stricken with appendicitis. While the engines were stopped for 52 minutes an operation was performed with five physicians in consultation. Arriving at Southampton, Mrs. Britten's condition was described as ''somewhat improved," but she could not leave the boat...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...
...convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...