Word: wife
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...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...
Bulletins giving full details of the progress of the Yale game, received by a special wife, leased by the Governing Board, will be announced and posted in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon. The Union will be open to members only...
...Medecin Malgre Lui" is one or Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding...
...student or other person travelling in the United States or Europe during the summer sees Erich Muenter, recently an assistant instructor in the German Department of Harvard University, who is wanted in Cambridge for the murder of his wife, will in the interests of justice, report the facts to the nearest police authorities, stating that he is wanted here on the above charge, and asking them to hold him and notify me by telegram or cable, I shall consider it a great favor...
...student or other person travelling in the United States or Europe during the summer sees Erich Muenter, recently an assistant instructor in the German Department of Harvard University, who is wanted in Cambridge for the murder of his wife, will in the interests of justice, report the facts to the nearest police authorities, stating that he is wanted here on the above charge, and asking them to hold him and notify me by telegram or cable, I shall consider it a great favor...