Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen's eyesight is happily improving under the care of specialists. Her elder brother, the late King Alexander of Greece, died of a monkey bite. Her eldest brother, George II of Greece, lives in cheerful banishment from his onetime kingdom, in England. Finally Princess Helen's divorced husband is M. Carol Caramain, the abdicated onetime Crown Prince of Rumania. Had he only been a faithful, proper husband the "Best Mother" would be today no princess but Queen of Rumania. Perhaps the enormity of that privation, which she has cheerfully borne, entitles Princess Helen to her big gold medal...
Nearer drew the ship to land. But also Death drew nearer. The race was ended when the Ile de France was still a day distant from Manhattan. As the liner docked, young Mrs. Wells said that she would take the malaria wasted body of her husband home to Minneapolis for burial...
...Herbert Clark Hoover was born a Quaker, his mother being zealous in the communities of Friends in Iowa. Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but adopted her husband's faith after their marriage. Hoover's reticence before the public was said to be due largely to his Quaker upbringing...
Sweet and Low. In her subsequent suit for divorce, Mrs. Aleminia Wyckoff alleged that she had hired a private detective to follow her husband to the source of his happiness. The detective traced him one evening to a house at Patchogue, L. I., where Cecelia Shere had an apartment. Gaining admission to the apartment in the morning, in the role of gasman, the detective found Wyckoff still there...
...Brooklyn, one Mrs. George Sayyah testified that her husband had dragged her by the hair and had compelled her to kiss his mother's feet. "What's this?" asked the judge. George Sayyah sullenly gave no reply. Shocked, furious, the magistrate said: "No more of this foot-kissing...