Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife died last year, but he manages to be a pretty good father to his daughter Diane, 5. (His son, David, 22, has an advertising job in Manhattan.) If he remarries, his friends think one good reason will be that he finds it hard to be a mother and an executive...
...When hulking, hard-drinking Stephen G. Simmons of what is now Wayne, Mich, was hanged in Detroit in 1830 for beating to death his invalid wife, Hangman Ben Woodworth made such a public spectacle of the affair that public aversion was aroused. Hanging Indians was one thing, hanging whites another. Eight years later, just across the border, Canada hanged a man subsequently proved innocent. Eight years after that, Michigan startled the world by declaring against capital punishment except for traitors...
...familiar as boy-meets-girl is the cinema situation in which Victor McLaglen fights with an adversary less cumbersome but much cleverer than himself. While Dobbie (McLaglen), a hulking, happy-go-lucky prospector, endures prolonged humiliation at the hands of an up & coming gambling-house proprietor (Brian Donlevy), his wife Kit (Gracie Fields) supports him and her moppet nephew by pursuing her profession of music-hall artiste...
Pronounced mee-now and so named by Owner Hal Price Headley after his little daughter, whose impatience at his kissing his wife first on entering the house caused her to habitually stamp and squeal...
...officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their two-year-old Son Lance a ward in Chancery, which will keep him under control of the Lord Chancellor until...