Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention...
...educated Soong family-three sisters, three brothers, two brothers-in-law-represents "one of the most striking agglutinations of personal power in the world." Soong Meiling, Mme Chiang Kaishek, the "most brilliant of the three sisters," is the "second most powerful personage in China," i.e., after her husband. Warily Author Gunther halfway predicts a long stalemate in the war, the Japanese trying merely to hold what they have. "But they must face the united and regenerated force of the Chinese nation," he adds. "They are fighting a people that have never before been permanently beaten...
...runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband has been heard to shush her after hours of it. When she is alone again late at night, if she is worked up about something, she will sit down and write a column at white heat, and these columns are usually her best...
Peaches-&-cream Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll asked Paramount a favor: a change of title for her new film (Are Husbands Necessary?). Reason: she is getting a divorce from her husband, Mayfairite Captain Philip Astley...
...Gaya, India, when a Moslem housewife heaved a pot of cooked beef at her husband, the gobbets hit a Hindu girl passing beneath the window. Result: a street riot (beef is sacred to Hindus), six killed, 75 injured...