Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring...
Readers of the diary of Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties- such passages as Pepys's account of his shamefaced spying on his wife Elizabeth when he thought she was too friendly with her dancing teacher, his love affair with Mrs. Bagwell after he had got her husband a job, with pert Betty after he had married her off to simple Mr. Martin, his adventures with Doll Lane, Jane Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys...
...many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife of the chairman of Reuters, leading British news agency...
...General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that...
MILAN--It was reported late tonight that Arturo Toscanini, famous conductor whose passport was withdrawn by Milan police, already had left Milan "and should be in France by now." The information was said to have been given to friends by the former Signovina Fornaroli, the wife of Toscanini's son Walter, and came after Toscanini's had been represented to be determined to sail for the United States Wednesday "at any cost...