Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This delightful, unfortunate fellow, brooding over the misery which he causes his wife (Vivienne Osborne), finally shoots himself. By that time she is leaning toward a virile magazine writer (Warren Williams) and their host and hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...
...speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that the name of the book was The Strange Countess...
...Gilbert Parker, English novelist (The Right of Way, The Weavers, The World for Sale), broke his arm, suffered bruises when an automobile, driven by his wife, who was not injured, overturned near Carmel Highlands, Calif...
...Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Murray left a will. But strangely unlike the bequest of a prince of the Church was this last testament. No hospital or needy mission gained by the primate's death. All his estate Bishop Murray left to his wife; there were no bequests to charities...
Married. Edith Mason, Chicago Civic Opera soprano, divorced wife of Giorgio Polacco (the opera's conductor), and Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein (orthopedic) of Chicago; at Antioch...