Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracts for the U. S. and foreign buyers. Dominating every detail is Wralt Olen, now 63, but still full of four-wheel-driven energy. When he laughs he still gets red all over. Pompous but kindly, he likes to lecture his men. When he is preparing a lecture, his wife has advance notice-he practices while shaving. Then a problem bothers him, he puts a compass in his pocket, strikes out into the woods until his mind clears. Whenever he passes an F.W.D. truck he tips...
Divorced. Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Earl of Warwick, 27, frustrated cinemactor ("Michael Brooke"); from his second cousin & first wife, Rose Bingham; in London...
...first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account, transforms her from a cool and indolent lady of fashion to a desperate, pitiable, hagridden monster, willing to consider the murder of her husband and finally abandoning all shame in the terrific scene that is the climax of the Biblical account...
...hill a couple of miles beyond the suburbs of Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 18,340) is a 63-acre farm with a hundred-year-old stone house, Oak Hill. Its inhabitants are 34-year-old Charles Allen Smart and his wife. They call themselves plain farmers...