Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of each bed is a, radio headphone. Prison-wise felons would rather go "up the river" to Sing Sing than to other New York penitentiaries. Most famed Sing Sing inmate is Charles E. Chapin, onetime city editor of the New York World, serving 20 years as a wife-killer. He has charge of the prison bird house, cares for Sing Sing canaries, parrots, lovebirds...
...understanding audiences as Night Birds, The Merry Countess and is now offered by the Brothers Shubert under a persuasive title which suggests a Shubert burlesque or a cheap cinema. Since the humor-depending on a husband's seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring a large and expert orchestra. An opulent mood is induced simply by the massed viols intoning the surging Straussian melodies...
...Utica, N. Y., one Harry Hewlett, garage man, sued the N. Y. Telephone Co; and Mrs. Dorcas Stockhauser, telephone operator, for $10,000. His charge: since 1923 Operator Stockhauser. daughter of a rival garage man, wife of another, diverted all calls to the Howlett garage, sent them instead to her family's garages...
...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...
...writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus has a heart of gold but a terrible temper when...