Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Leiter, Chicago coal man, son of the late Levi Zeigler Leiter (onetime partner of Marshall Field), brother-in-law of the late Marquese Curzon of Kedleston, husband of Juliette Williams Leiter (famed Washington hostess). Reason: Prohibition...
...ropes failed to hold the burden of the mass. Wanting to touch, to say something to the Smith family, the People charged, milled, shoved, yelled. Scarcely heard were the screams of two girls whose bodies were bent back sharply over the ropes. Mrs. Smith became separated from her husband. He refused to take another step until she was restored to his side. An officer found her; she was white with fright. Finally, the Smiths reached an automobile. The Brown Derby began to wave salutations. As far as his dazzling blue eyes could see, was the People?on roofs...
Kriemhild's Revenge, sequel to Siegfried, shown in the U. S. in 1925, tells how Siegfried's widow goes looking through a world of half-gods for someone who will avenge the murder of her husband. In settings like the metaphors of an epic poet the story moves to its climax in the hall of Attila, king of the earth, where the last of the Niebelungs sing their death-song under the burning roof. With a sound accompaniment this picture, the last made in the UFA studios before Hollywood companies bought up their talent, would be a novel...
Michael Gordon is the ideal husband-brilliant war record, handy about the house, shaggy tweeds, chugging pipe. He worships his wife, aids and abets her stage career. They find a storybook cottage-thatch roof, rambler roses, flagstones-he settles down to his writing, she commutes to her London theatre. Every midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol...
...Ford sedan 60 m.p.h. for 8,000 feet, last week, to celebrate the opening of a new stretch of road near Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. On the day before, Mrs. Henry Ford had made a speech before the Women's National Farm & Garden Association,* characterizing her husband as "easy going." She also said that he had purchased Wayside Inn to save it from becoming "a common roadhouse...