Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles C. Goodrich, wife of the tire tycoon, traveled last week from York Village, Me., to Phoenix, Ariz., in a Pullman. The cost: $3,900. The reason: Mrs. Goodrich, long and seriously ill, needed the care of a doctor, nurses, and her husband, the privacy of a single Pullman, a swift trip without stopover or change...
...indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked to choke old ladies. He cut the tongues from the mouths of his three Japanese servants. Mr. Crispin has a son whose father-fixation is so unshakable that he agrees to be the nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where...
...biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived and buried her daughter. It was Meresankh Ill's tomb that Dr. Reisner's party...
...years Mrs. Struthers Burt paid the grocer, sent the children to school, on the proceeds of blood-and-thunder bestsellers, while her more distinguished husband wrote literature. Recently his literature has begun to pay, and his wife has snatched the opportunity herself to indulge in a little literature. As such, Cock's Feather is carefully designed, well-written. Never attaining heights of imagination or depths of tragedy, it is the consistent story of remarkably convincing human characters...
Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...