Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carr was turned over to the U.S. Immigration Department to await a deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked if she knew that her husband was a Russian spy. Said she: "I suppose...
...collapsed in 1932, Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
...when nominations closed for the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity Stakes, Elizabeth Arden Graham decided to let her Ace Admiral stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...
...written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned the dead Holmes by wearing crepe hatbands. Mrs. Doyle improved for a time, and her husband built her an elaborate house in the south of England...
...Except to a very small number of readers, her own poetry was then, and still is, almost unknown. But if her admirers are few, they are also fervent. Chief among them is the California poet, scholar and critic, Yvor Winters, who made this selection. In his opinion, Mrs. Daryush is "one of the few distinguished poets of our century and a poet who can take her place without apology in the company of Campion and Herrick...