Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such reports from the opening of Paris fashion shows have grated on Nazi ears for the past fortnight as Schiaparelli followed Mainbocher, and Paquin, Patou and Balenciaga demonstrated that, whoever runs the world, Paris intends to go on making his wife's clothes...
...pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth of knowing Nazis who recall his bibulous "Strength Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently, Dr. Ley, whose wife is no dowdy, damned fashions because they waste materials, "which is not in the least in accordance with the present economic policy." Promptly cuing in, Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Storm Troopers, editorialized...
Died. Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, 40, third wife of former U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings; of high blood pressure; in Washington. She was 29 years younger, 17 inches shorter than her 6-ft.-4 husband, but official Washington considered them its most devoted couple. In 1937 she asked for-and got-permission to wear a red dress when presented at the Court of St. James's. As a hostess she was tough, delighted to scramble New Dealers and Conservatives, took no political sides herself: "Politics is Homer's business, not mine...
Died. Amy Irwin McCormick, 59, artist, art patron and wife of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick (the Chicago Tribune), of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...blade; of shock following a tragic report that his daughter's foot had been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written "solely for money"), telling about his three marriages, two divorces (wife No. 2 recommended him as "an altogether delightful person, but absolutely impossible"); the loss of a $1,500,000 inheritance, mostly by gambling, which fascinated him as a mathematical problem to which he was always finding a new "solution...