Word: missus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a long time since "the missus" has had to get Mr. Guest his meals. The Guests have a fine big house just off the Detroit Golf Club's fairway, a summer home at Pointe Aux Barques, Mich. In addition to his syndicate work, Rhymester Guest has for the past four years boarded a sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while...
...times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister and Missus Is the Name...
...February: "I began fasting in February because that was the dullest month in the righting business." Why Mr. Wills fasts: "Fasting drives the impurities out of my system." How Mr. Wills fasts: "For four weeks I just sip water." How Mrs. Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything she can lay her hands on." Crawford Burton, 48, dean of U. S. hunt riders, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland...
What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...