Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock at the last moment...
...visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass at Claudia. Not until her hitherto unmentioned husband arrives upon the scene, thereby precipitating one of the most comic lines of contemporary drama, does the demure insanity of March Hares become quieted in a final readjustment...
...girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian man-and-wife passport. Loveday persuades him to let her impersonate the better half of the joint document, but Italian border officials find her far too beautiful for the alleged likeness, even with allowances for its being a passport picture. Loveday is detained...
...insight into human fears and frailty, but less of the happy charm of his Crock of Gold. No happiness at all about "Hunger"-grim story of a woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing left but her crippled child, and bread lines. Again, in the mood of the Russians, a story called "Schoolfellows" recounts a good man accosted by his old schoolfellow who offers conversation in return for drink, more conversation in return for more drink...
...very capably played by Fiancine Larrimore, the author burlesques on the recent trials of bobbed-haired bandits and wronged mothers. Roxie is seduced to her own room by her paramour, kills him, and goes on trial with only the women's benefit league, twelve sentimental jurymen and her foolish husband to back...