Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managed the (unsuccessful) reform campaigns of John M. Harlan (1905) and Charles E. Merriam (1911) for Mayor. More successful in local politics was his first wife, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, who cut a figure in the Legislature...
...British Government. I have no doubt but that his visit will be extremely valuable in establishing contacts." Seven-year-old Son Nicholas, before solemnly saying good-by to Father Eden at Southampton, admonished: "Now you have a big job on!" Said Anthony Eden to the press: "My wife and I are glad, at last, to have this chance of visiting the United States. . . . We have to be back at home for the Christmas holidays with the children...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
When Ferdinand de Lesseps set out to build the Suez Canal in 1859 he was a dignified widower of 54, who had had five sons by his first wife. Five days after the canal was finished in 1869 Ferdinand de Lesseps married again. By his second wife he had six more sons and as many daughters. Of the 17* de Lesseps offspring seven were still alive last week...
...played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...