Word: missus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missus. Before he joined up, many a U.S. housewife knew Sergeant Maypole as "my nephew Roy" of The Missus Goes Ashopping, a quarter-hour comedy-quiz program six days a week on Manhattan's WABC. He produced and wrote the show...
...protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied together, became adept. Interest in the Westgates' ability grew; week ago the Detroit police gave a demonstration before a crowd in the city's Masonic Temple. Finale was the Westgate act, entitled: "A Woman Defends Herself...
...plain, seven-room, red brick house which he built 23 years ago, still occupies with his wife and a Negro maid named Orpah. The Murray living room is decorated with oil paintings selected by Mrs. Murray. Her husband's favorite is a seascape. Says Mr. Murray approvingly: "The missus has a very good eye for such things." A onetime star outside-left on soccer teams, Murray's only distraction from labor labors now is at tending prize fights...
...Victor gave 63-year-old Billy Murray a chance at a comeback, on Bluebird records. Last week his voice, no longer a broth but a rich Irish stew, was to be heard in The Guy at the End of the Bar. Mock-boozily he caroled: Who says that his missus just gave him the air, And left with the kids and the car? Just give him a nod and he'll climb in your hair...
...younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...