Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situations. Even the judge and family friend who early in the proceedings grants the Warriners an interlocutory decree of divorce is clearly in collusion with the author in his determination to bring things out happily. After the hearing he leaves the two who are no longer husband and wife alone in his chambers. Coming in, after a decent interval, he is so hopeful of a reconciliation that he is bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might...
...where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds for Divorce, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). She has managed to withstand the floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night at Cap D'Antibes when she and Gilbert argued about what to do after dinner...
...West Pointers have two "wives" each. Third member of the Cagle-Herbert family is George W. Lermond, the Army's ablest track man. Wife Lermond stands in the middle of his class academically. *The Army-Navy quarrel over eligibility of first-year men still hangs fire. There will be no Army-Xavy game this year...
...Mexico City President Emilio Fortes Gil attended, as he had promised he would do (TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn...
When Convict Burns was returned to Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American. Shrewd, she did not ask millions (as is usually the case ) for the destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife...