Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...Trim Mrs. Ida Saks said that the state police must be called in to probe the "foul situation." If the "city government does not clean up ... the women can and will, with God's help." A righteous cheer rose...
...phone rang peremptorily in the modest Hollywood home of Mrs. Elsie Thomas. Over 2,450 miles, her daughter's voice spoke raggedly in her ear: "Emory is going to kill us. He has a gun. Talk him out of this awful thing." Emory was on the phone. As she heard her daughter's sobs in the background, Mrs. Thomas begged him, with paralyzed inadequacy: "Please-be a good boy." Her son-in-law's tense voice came back: "It's too late, Mama, it's too late...
...mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
There is a standing invitation to all members from Housemaster and Mrs. Hammond. In fact, Mrs. Hammond's Thursday teas have the unusual distinction of being regularly attended by a crowd of men who come because they want...