Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association (see p. 28) by a lady no less well known than himself: his wife. All three of them enjoyed the occasion mightily...
...Bertil, 26, present the monument to the President. At the hospital, however, the President chatted for a half-hour with the Crown Prince, invited Crown Princess Louise to Hyde Park for Saturday luncheon. There, although the President's mother wanted to serve country sausages, the President's wife had her way, and the Crown Princess was fed hot dogs dripping with mustard...
...Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went to Alaska with a Hollywood cinema crew to film his novel Eskimo. Domesticated in Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began...
...only when he went out in society. But soon he was going stronger than ever. He made two trips to Greenland, where he revisited old friends, brought their stories up-to-date, dug up many a new tale. A special part of his pleasure, the reader suspects, was his wife's slightly sick astonishment at Eskimo food (year-old whale, blue-green eggs, etc.),at such hospitable Eskimo customs as wife-trading...
Most subdued parts of Freuchen's autobiography are those telling of his son Mequsaq (now 21, a hunter), first child by his well-beloved Eskimo wife who died in 1920. An Eskimo to the marrow, he could not, like his sister Pipaluk, now 19, adapt himself to life in Denmark. When, on one of his visits to Enehoje, Mequsaq set fire to the estate just to see it burn, Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from...