Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things named Isis -a river where undergraduates row, a newspaper in whose columns undergraduates row. Much water having flowed through the Isis locks since December 1936, when Edward of Britain demoted himself to David of Windsor, Oxford's Isis undergraduates last week urged his return home with his wife...
Said the Isis: "We want no English pretender. God forbid. But if it is indeed their wish to return to England, we will give them such a welcome as they have never seen before. To the Duchess in particular, whether as her Royal Highness or just as the chosen wife of the man who for so many years served this nation as few have served it, we will show that courtesy is not wholly dead among the middle and lower classes of the British people...
...Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned...
Intoxicated by the rabble-rousing, a young Fascist dashed from the crowd and slugged a passing Jew, Jacobo Glantz, a naturalized Mexican citizen who is literary editor of the Yiddish newspaper, The Pathway. Glantz took refuge in the nearby hat shop of his wife but before the police could get to him, the Jew-hating crowd had wrecked the storefront...
...fine thing it is to have a patient wife, four bright-eyed children and $26,000 worth of stock in the bank. But rare is the man who has attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical...