Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other, Husband Carter plans to go west, get a divorce, thus allow Mrs. Carter to marry the engaging Bradford. But when he divulges this plan, Manager Bradford coolly declares that he is an itinerant fellow, not given to matrimony. Husband Carter's rage is quelled by his wife, who afterwards tells him that she has never been able to accept Bradford completely. Inspired by this new light on faithful, patient wifehood, Husband Carter decides to stay with Mrs. Carter and consult a new doctor...
...Author. Aged 20 in 1920, William R. Burnett married a 20-year-old wife in Springfield, Ohio. Not rich, both worked. All his free time, all his nights and Sun days of the next seven years, Burnett spent at his desk. He wrote five novels, 50 short stories. None of them satisfied publishers or himself...
...Burnetts went to Chicago. She got a job in an office. He worked briefly in the Marshall Field department store. Burnett seldom saw his wife those days. At night he loafed around with gangsters and pugilists. He was getting material for his sixth novel, Little Caesar, and his seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...
...conventional modes of employing great wealth have not appealed to Edith, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, one-time wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, lion huntress, psychoanalyst, philanthropist, social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal...
That won. The judges included Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of New York, famed press-agents Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Edward L. Bernays, John Price Jones...