Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband, father or uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make toward attending to his neglected affairs. Thousands of French women are holding their husbands' jobs today as bus conductors, mail carriers, taxi drivers, and in stores and factories...
...Feminine Française. This is composed of about 1,200 definitely wealthy women, each owning her own car, for only the rich have cars in France. During the evacuation of Paris by thousands of civilians, most of whom left by train, they dashed about carrying blankets, rood and mail to évacués in their new country homes...
...blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the husbands. Home life, between whiles, is saved from monotony by Satan (who arrives so punctually each day he could just as well deliver the mail), assorted ghosts, the old lady's coffin (which, pending its final function, she uses as a kind of chaise longue), windstorms, shotguns, sluts from the city and the black influenza...
...himself (for $10) to a tryout sponsor, an unheralded reducing pill at $1 a box. "Now I'm not saying that your husband doesn't love you," he soft-soaped, "but when you look into the mirror, are you being fair to him?" Next morning's mail brought $600 from fat ladies begging for a chance to let Martin streamline them...
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