Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed newspaper piece last week, Chief Hoover wrote: "George ('Machine Gun') Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...
Died. Sally Clement Bridges, 35, second wife of Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Concord, N. H. Informed of his wife's sudden illness, Senator Bridges flew from Washington to Concord (375 miles), arrived six minutes too late...
...filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp...
...master of such tactics; Considine was horrified no less by Irish success than by English reprisal. When Considine was responsible for the death of a suspected spy, and then learned that the man had been innocent, his conscience rode him harder than ever. When he committed adultery with the wife of an informer, it nearly drove him crazy. When a priest refused him absolution, he dropped the revolution, gave himself up, was shot in cold blood. Kilfoyle got away, reflecting sardonically: "The Englishman loves his wife and his dog; the Irishman, his soul...
...What are we coming to, I say. For all anyone knows, these men may be moral perverts and as I remarked to my wife, they probably are. Imagine exposing our Youth to this kind of thing. It is American. It makes my blood bell...