Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions for filling out the draft questionnaire in 1917 permitted a married man to state that he had a child if his wife was pregnant. I was a member of a county draft advisory board, and so advised a friend whose marriage took place later than a certain date after which marriage was considered a means of evading or deferring military service. His statement that he had a child because his wife was pregnant, was challenged, but it stood up, and he got a deferred classification because of offspring, not spouse...
...money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls "No'th Ca'lina" when campaigning. But he poses in double-breasted suits and violent cravats for pictures which give the Tarheels vicarious pleasure. For his fourth wife he married an ex-Follies girl in Manhattan, took her home to Asheville, was with her when she died there in 1934. Bob Reynolds busted North Carolina political tradition in 1932 by running for the Senate as a Wet, turned out Dry old Cam Morrison who had been a power...
...momentous times. In Part I, the rebellion of the Percys and their confederates against Henry IV opposes the heedless, gallant Hotspur to the cooler, better-balanced Prince Hal. There is rousing theatre in Hotspur's eloquent defiance; warmth in his half-boyish, half-intense love scene with his wife; pathos in his death...
...impeccable conventional draftsman when he wanted to be, Picasso produced in the next period a number of line drawings of Ingres-like delicacy, including several of his wife. The "classic" pictures of these years (1918-25) were really of several kinds: monumental, massive giantesses which to some critics symbolize the all-maternal space of the universe; softly bulky, grand but graceful human figures that recall such Italian masters as Paolo Veronese; out-and-out Greco-Romanesque figure compositions in various stages of archaism, action and distortion. His production was enormous. At Gisors, about 35 miles from P'aris...
...Spaniards. Never a dandy, he now dresses adequately but with indifference, is only a bit touchy about being short (5 ft. 3 in.). A plausible theory for the usual dirt and disorder of his rooms is that it is largely reaction from the neatness enforced by his bourgeois wife...