Word: wife
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown at the "ungrateful" recipient...
...burning thirst and a mind absolutely blank as to the events of the night before. He discovers to his horror that he has brought home, besides various articles of female apparel, an old schoolmate as a bed-fellow, who is suffering from the effects of the same hilarity. The wife of the bourgeois enters, newspaper in hand, and reads about the gruesome murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence points to their having committed the crime during hours...
...Breaking in of a Yachtsman's Wife," by M. H. Vorse...
...cenception of religion. In the following two lectures the broad realm of orthodoxy, which even extends to politics, social customs, and economics, was forcefully propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin stated that the duty of religion is to moralize the six wants which make towards the well-rounded happiness of a perfect moral society...
Professor Zueblin in his characteristic manner showed by a brief survey of history from feudal times, how authority in its various phases has gradually but markedly decayed. The decay is evident in the authority of the parent over the child, in the authority of the husband over his wife, in the power of the employer over the employee. It is but a logical, natural, and desirable growth. What is now desired to complete the advance is an increase in spiritual authority, for which the prospect is bright...