Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with him wherever he goes, though boxing circles are more impressed by the fearsome hairiness of His Highness's chest than by the power of his punch. Lastly Prince Ibrahim has a talent for catastrophe...
Humiliation. Said Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz, flying wife of Tiffany & Co.'s vice president: "It is humiliating to admit that at present there seems to be no American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days...
...Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night...
...Yonkers, Louis Hanley, as superintendent of the Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, reformed many an erring husband. Last week he was arrested for deserting his wife and two children...
Married. Marion Nixon, cinemactress, divorced wife of Prizefighter Joe Benjamin; to Edward Hillman Jr., Chicago heir, onetime husband of Actress Dorothy Martin; in Chicago...