Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Less than ten feet from one of our party was a charming little girl in her sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...report had it that an old lung ailment had returned and that inactivity had been prescribed for her. Another report (published in Paris by the weekly Aux Ecoutes) had it that the ambitious Edda had recently overreached herself in a quarrel with Crown Prince Umberto and his wife, the Princess Maria José: usually indulgent, Papa Benito, unwilling to have dynastic troubles on his hands, had set his foot down for once-so ran the story-and had commanded his strong-headed daughter temporarily to take up homely pursuits...
Divorced. Raymond Massey, 42, cadaverous, Canadian-born actor (Abe Lincoln in Illinois); by his second wife, Actress Adrienne Allen Massey, 32; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots...
...story of a neglected wife, Skylark tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She's a woman, she's life itself -she makes the grass grow, see? She's a skylark"), its improbable characters and adroit situations, may sound more convincing on the stage than in print. Manhattanites may have a chance to find out next autumn, when ebullient Gertrude Lawrence, who toured...