Word: wife
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other communication of which we wish to speak is a letter from President Andrews of Marietta College to his wife, which has been dragged into the columns of the College Olio. It purports to be a description of Oxford University; it is in reality a "home" letter of the most commonplace sort. As a private communication we refrain from criticising it; but we cannot commend the taste which places such a document before even the limited portion of the public who read the College Olio...
...seldom meet. The days were not long enough for him to recount the wonders he had seen and done, and all with the most utter contempt of probability and disregard of grammar. He had recently been married, - for the second or third time I should judge, - and had his wife, a blooming maiden of twenty or so, with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly as is usually the case under similar circumstances. On the morning of the third day after leaving Italy we came in sight of Alexandria...
...that the smallest conservative majority on a question of politics was thirteen, and that on the question of Mr. Gladstone's programme at the time of the late dissolution. A motion in favor of cremation was passed by a large majority, whilst a motion against marriage with a deceased wife's sister was rejected by a large majority...
...have a scolding wife. Will exchange for a belle without a clapper. - Caudle...
...FASHIONABLE WIFE...