Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less for its food and company than for its mirrors. Hunched at the bar with a sketch pad concealed on his knee, he could use the other patrons as his unconscious models. On this occasion a furious little gentleman approached the artist and charged that Bellows was ogling his wife. Bellows was very peaceable but very tall. He rose, slowly. When he reached six feet the challenger blanched and turned away...
...analytical trail, Investigator Goodfellow extended his research to cover the program's dramatization of telepathy case histories. In one of them thought transference was said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried in a woodshed. Last week, Dr. Goodfellow announced that again telepathy had had nothing to do with the case, cited California Supreme Court records, said that the grave had been found by a small boy who peeped through a knothole...
Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass...
...summer day in 1899, a private banker named Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina were walking through the expensive wildwood of their big country estate, Yaddo, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Suddenly Katrina stopped, listened, raised her hands "as if in appeal to that Something which was too vast for me to define." Few moments later she said with dreamy excitement: "Here will be a perpetual series of house parties-of literary men, literary women, and other artists. . . . At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame. Look, Spencer! They are walking...
Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...