Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found out he had a wife & child...
Miss Mary Endicott, a daughter of U. S. Secretary of War in the first administration of President Cleveland, by becoming the third wife of Old Joe (twice a widower) helped him reach this final conclusion of his maturity: although Anglo-German accord is indispensable to European peace, the edifice requires to be supported by a flying buttress 3,000 miles long in the form of an alliance or entente of the U. S. with Britain and Germany...
When 58-year-old Sir Miles and his second wife, beauteous, Italian-blooded, 25-year-old Lady Lampson recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...
...China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will appearances has so worn down the Ambassador that his weight dropped to 92 lbs., and four months ago he was forced to take a prolonged rest cure at Hot Springs, Va. Back in Washington last week, Ambassador Saito, whose wife likens him to a tireless, leaping carp, was reported to have received an urgent Tokyo cable. Premier Konoye, stuck to find a Foreign Minister when General Kazushige Ugaki suddenly quit fortnight ago, requested Hiroshi Saito to take the post. General Ugaki. long on the outs with an army clique determined...
...second nature discreet. In her account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward VII (the seat was too low), of a lovers' quarrel patched up by a specially aromatic dinner...