Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irascible Mr. Spencer was divorced last spring by his third wife, 76-year-old Emeline Harriman Olin Spencer, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. Said Mrs. Spencer: ''He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear...
...field duty, a tour in Washington, assignment to the Philippines, Hawaii, China, or some domestic doghouse, and always the crawl up the promotion lists from lieutenant to captain to major, perhaps to a colonelcy or even to the final glory of a general's stars. For his wife: the same, plus a lifetime with other army wives. How some of them live was told last week in a whitewashed room at Fort Jay, Governors Island...
Gaunt, bumptious Colonel Giffin and his wife took a fancy to sycophantic Lieut. Smith and his wife, took them into the Giffin home at Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred...
...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...Matawan, N. J., Judson Van Arsdale, 59, advertised for a wife. Out of 80 replies he picked May Meyers, 57, of Washington, D. C., sent her railway fare. Before they were married, May went home to see her daughter. Impatient, Judson sent railway fare to another candidate, Nellie Davis, 44, of Paris, Ill. May and Nellie arrived at the same time. Unable to make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady...