Word: wedlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Smith belongs to a church which holds adulterous every wedlock not favored by its Pope; which brands as bastardy every birth not blessed by its book; which denies sanctuary even in man's last, long home, the grave, save it be hallowed in the dead language of Rome...
...effort to slight none of the great U. S. ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces...
Chee-Chee. Such is the babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches...
Early Victorian. This daughter had a daughter−out of wedlock−by a respectable village merchant, who kept the child, gentle Mary Anne, and lavished on her wealth, breeding, everything but a legitimate name. Queer, handsome Charles, heir to the Babyons, gave her that, and a son who adored...
...case of James Barrett Johnson, artist, against whom Mrs. Ruth Johnson had a complaint. Mrs. Johnson wished to be divorced; she charged cruelty and said that her husband had neglected, during the nine years of their wedlock, to provide her with flowers and candy. Also, she complained that since she had left his bed and board, James Johnson had pursued her onto street cars and had sent her more flowers and candy than she wanted. Mr. Johnson heard his wife's criticisms with dismay. For himself, he told the court, he loved his wife and desired her return. To this...