Word: missuses
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...building that had rats scurrying up the narrow stairs, cockroaches dancing in the fetid rooms and bars on the narrow windows. The "fireplace" was a drawing with colored flames. Rent? "Well," rasped the agent, "they're asking a thousand, but seeing as how you and the missus could make this a lovely home, you can have it for $950." The couple fled...
Funny he should mention it, because the Tynan character at times seems a somewhat attenuated Teddy-doll: half-moon glasses, jabbing finger, troubles with the missus. And the sexual politics always have been a hallmark of the Kennedy mystique, even with the Senator's often embarrassing weight problem. The mimicry appears at just the right time to capitalize on, and possibly abet, the burgeoning Kennedy in '80 groundswell...
...party at La Casa Pacifica, which brought in about $100,000. Nixon reminisced about his memories of Orange County-the time he proposed to Pat at Dana Point and the days when he practiced law at La Habra. One of the most exuberant guests was John Wayne. Greeting the Missus with a bow and a kiss on the hand, the Duke said, "It's great to see Pat up and around and looking happy." As for her husband, the Duke enthused: "I was with the ex-President when he was a winner and a loser and a winner again...
From the beginning, investigators have focused most of their suspicions on Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses...
Just before her disappearance, Matlick's relationship with "the missus" seemed in jeopardy. She had become friendly with Richard Bailey, a Chicago stable owner who boarded some of her horses. She had been talking about moving to Fort Lauderdale...