Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany at her own game. Like Dr. Wohlthat, he too got his wife from Philadelphia...
Married. Adrianne Allen Massey, 32, British actress, and William Dwight Whitney, 39, Manhattan socialite lawyer; both for the second time, in Storrington, England. Fortnight ago Mrs. Whitney's former husband, Actor Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) married Mr. Whitney's former wife, Dorothy Ludington Whitney...
...even Paris, taken at first hand, soon lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting...
...them sober small-town businessman and their sober wives, eschewed Atlanta's worldly amusements, fraternized with one another and with messengers from overseas. In Atlanta were Baptists from Rumania, from Spain; fourteen Baptists came from Latvia. The Latvians were all one family: Rev. William Fetler, prison worker, his wife and twelve children, who play together as an orchestra...
Sylvia Russell, the captain's wife, in this sharply competent book, hated her daughter Hervey's easy-mannered husband because he was without character, "the most damning thing a Yorkshireman can say about man or woman." This leisurely, detailed portrait of Sylvia's married life shows that she herself, like a good Jameson heroine, had enough for six. She eloped with one of her shipowning mother's captains, stubbornly refused to patch the break even when it meant stinting her children, kept moving from house to house in windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby...