Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presently there was a rumor that she was with child. The Commodore was encouraged by the possibility of recruiting a son to inherit his command. When his wife's "inflation" proved a bubble, he became somewhat embittered against the world in which such trickeries were practiced...
...write three books. The War over, he still found need to work at the mills three days a week, writing the last three days. Many a U. S. student remembers his U. S. lectures in the autumn of 1927. Now Author Maurois lives in Paris with his wife and three children...
Atmosphere of Love is a novel, two-fold in form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary...
...Dwight Filley Davis, wife of the Governor-General of the Philippines, denied a rumor that her daughter Alice was engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's son. The two are "barely acquainted," said Mrs. Davis. She explained: one day on the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md, (while Mr. Davis was Secretary of War), Allan Hoover and Alice Davis happened to stand near each other when a camera clicked...
John Coolidge, railroad clerk who this summer started work for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. at $30.16 per week, signed a lease on a $78 apartment (4 rooms) in New Haven, Conn., for himself and wife-to-be, Miss Florence Trumbull. Miss Trumbull approved modern conveniences already installed, ordered washtubs. Wrote Citizen Calvin Coolidge last month: No newly married couple should pay more rent per month than the husband earns per week...