Word: whose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faults. If it were more sensible you might not be able to tell how far Gloria Swanson is personally responsible for what merit it has. As it is, you are interested all the time in the way her brilliant acting makes credible the overexcited story of a woman whose principles and weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband...
...women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
...National Guard, whose training is slightly more severe than that of the Australian conscripts, numbered...
...short, plump, roundfaced, grey-haired, swift-speeched, handshaking Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose custom it has always been to give weekly dinners to his Minneapolis employes...
When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...