Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released last week by Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion were the results of a poll on the question: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has conducted herself as 'First Lady?' " Her husband was approved by 58% of the voters in a recent Gallup poll (and by 62% of the major party voters in the 1936 election). Mrs. Roosevelt won approval from 67%. Unlike her husband she got a majority of favorable votes in the upper income group...
Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City...
...terms of the will call for the establishment of a professorship of Arabic at the University. The chair will bear the name of Mrs. Jewett's husband, James R. Jewett, former Harvard professor...
...psychiatrist. No one else could satisfy the reader's main curiosity, namely, what motives of exhibitionism, just grievance or resentment against a male-dominated world prompt the writings of such a book. Madeleine Boyd does a thorough job in messing up the portrait of the elegant husband. But she herself does not come through looking as though she were dressed for church...
...striking number of young Sassoon's unhappinesses. His parents' separation infected even the nursery with melancholy. His rich Aunt Rachel (the only Sassoon he remembers well), who lived in a gloomy mansion and was married to a paralytic (owner of the Sunday Times), went insane at her husband's funeral. Romantic Siegfried was alienated from his mechanically-minded brothers and schoolmates by his taste for poetry. At Marlborough he was bored. (His final report read: "No particular intelligence.") Cambridge, which he left in his second year, was even less congenial...