Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Felix, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg hurriedly ended a goodwill visit to the U. S., sailed home to his wife's tiny (999 sq. mi.), neutral land right beside which Germans and French were fighting (see p. 15). Courtly, friendly Felix left too soon to hear the news about one of Luxembourg's several unsalaried consuls...
...August 21, 1939, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, returned by plane to London, fresh from a month's vacation with his wife and nine children spent at an estate famous for its roses, Domain de Ranguin, five miles from Cannes, on the French Riviera. In the two weeks that followed, the red-faced, red-haired Boston Irishman went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only...
...most dramatic portrait is that of Olympias, wife of lusty, roughneck Philip II, mother of psychopathic Alexander the Great. Her sinister and violent career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...
...good wives grace those turbulent and dangerous times. One was Mariamne, sweet-tempered Jewish wife of Herod, who loved her desperately even though he let her be executed as a result of Salome's cold-blooded intrigues. The other was Amytis, wife of handsome, witty, tolerant Cyrus...
...have called it. He does not deny Clive repaid himself handsomely for his trouble. First fruits of Plassey for Clive were $1,170,000. Clive's fortune when he returned to England shortly after was estimated at $6,000,000, one of the largest in the country. His wife's jewels were valued at $100,000 "at the very least." One Indian prince granted Clive $150,000 a year. Said witty Horace Walpole: "If a beggar asks charity, he says: 'Friend, I have no small brilliants about me.'" The cost of living, Walpole added, rose immediately...