Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of July 15 was a scorcher in Tokyo. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's homey wife rose early to prepare her husband a jug of iced barley-tea. American-born Lady Craigie, wife of the British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than...
...history and treatises on his other old favorite: map making. He has few friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned as her husband, have no children. Madame la Générale enjoys going to maneuvers...
Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
...left his royalties to his Jewish widow; everything else to the Vienna Friends of Music Association. The widow, growing rich on royalties, bought up all the Straussiana she could, declaring she would leave it to the city. Instead, she left everything to her daughter by a previous husband, also named Strauss...
...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...