Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were the morning-after sentiments of cheery Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. But not for two days did her husband tell the press how he felt about the election returns. In reply to direct questions he finally said the returns were "all right"; he did not anticipate a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats working against him; his own forecast of Democratic losses had been too small by one Senator, 16 Representatives; he did not plan to change his legislative program. Oldtime, arch-Republican Correspondent Mark Sullivan, watching Franklin Roosevelt intently from the massed ranks of reporters, admitted that he looked...
...London court circles said that the King had refused to receive the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband since last Christmas has pleaded with his family by letter and telephone to welcome his wife to England. The Duke of Windsor is expected by his family to break his two-year exile and revisit England early in the new year, alone...
...sexy weekend tabloid published on Fridays, and specializing in headlines like "Barefoot Blonde in Nightie Caught in Husband's Room...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
Neither better nor worse than Hichens' average two-a-year, The Journey Up is the snob story of a mannequin whose social ambitions make a moral and financial wreck of her surgeon-husband. It is a good example of nearly automatic writing. Its only discernible purpose is to keep Author Hichens' income at about $25,000 a year and enable him to lead the comfortable cosmopolitan bachelor existence to which he has become accustomed...