Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested matrons attended the opening. One, who had often been a spectator in courts, was the prosecutor's trim, Junior-Leaguish wife. The other had never attended a trial. She it was who, in 1903 (year after Thomas Edmund Dewey was born in Owosso, Mich.), as the prettiest girl in Tammany's Eleventh District, married an ambitious young Irish blacksmith, James J. Hines. She appeared in court, flanked by her bulky sons and their pretty-girl wives, only because Jimmy Hines was in the worst trouble of his rough-&-tumble career. Like Mrs. Dewey she went...
...clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery has just been off on the wrong foot. . . . Incidentally, he has been separated from his wife for three years...
...typical Calypsonian inspiration was the visit of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Trinidad. Hammering long words into his melody regardless of accent (a Calypso trait), Atilla the Hun - a sober young father, mostly white, of nine children by his Negro wife - sings on a Decca disc...
...Altogether the school handles 3,000 pupils a day. As result of a tie-up with Fleischmann's yeast (a mail order course for 81 yeast labels), Arthur Murray has acquired 350,000 correspondence students since last March. House organ of Murray's, edited by his wife, is called the Murray-Go-Round...
...historical background (from the planters' viewpoint) is well informed. But Cavin's leading part is woodenly dramatized. Although he rides with the Klan, is away for weeks on secret political missions, the reader catches him only when he has returned to the plantation and talks with his wife and neighbors about the situation in general. In tone, these conversations are not very different from equally interminable conversations about his generally pleasant and prospering plantation affairs. And since both Cavin and his wife (an idyllic pair) are dimly characterized, the novel's total effect is to make...