Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerable, majestic Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary. "You must stop them from flogging your soldiers!" cried Elizabeth. To Franz Josef this was an astonishing, irrational request. For centuries Hungarian soldiers had been flogged "when delinquent." But on the spot, he humored his pink-cheeked, starry-eyed wife by signing a decree which has kept Hungarian soldiers from being flogged ever since. 1929. In Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since...
Italy: Three years in jail for the guilty husband or wife...
Mexico: A husband who kills his rival or a wife who kills her rival shall not be liable to any punishment, but the killing shall be recorded, and, should the same killer slay a second rival, he or she may be tried for murder...
...congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There...
Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...