Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipyard last week. Formidable, indeed, was the launching. As if sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia...
...family so effectively as a nervy outsider who plumps into its midst. Director Gregory La Cava, who tried it with a butler in My Man Godfrey (1937), this time does it in distaff with a working girl. When rich Mr. Borden (Walter Connolly) is stood up by his wife and family on his birthday, he wanders gloomily into Central Park, finds himself talking about the seals to pretty young Mary Grey (Ginger Rogers). Discovering by accident that Mary makes his enameled wife (Verree Teasdale) pay attention to him for the first time in years, Mr. Borden rightly concludes that...
...mighty man of God was the Reverend Samuel Moody.* From 1698 until his death in 1747, his warnings of hell fire kept the fireless meeting house at York Village, Maine, warm on even the coldest Sundays. Generous to a fault, he once gave away his wife's only pair of shoes. Sturdy, he declined a salary, lived on "faith in his Divine Master" supplemented by the voluntary gifts of his flock. Paternal, he was called Father Moody, an appellation rare among Congregationalists. Intolerant as his era, he took along an ax when at 70 he sailed as chaplain...
...wife cut it off to make a bowl of jelly...
...Poet Rice lives in Louisville, a few minutes' walk from the Churchill Downs race track, travels far and often with Wife Alice Hegan Rice (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), especially likes ocean voyages, though at first he "little dreamed kindly critics would one day assign me a position among the 'preeminent' sea poets." Sample of his marine verse...