Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes out little, devotes one evening a week to his duties on the executive committee of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He has taken Merle Oberon out to dinner. Although he has transferred his 40-foot motor cruiser, New Moon, to a Pacific anchorage, he has left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks of his employer as Mr. Goldwyn. To an interviewer Cineman Roosevelt recently observed: "I won't say I'm not going to go back into politics, because...
...About Town (Paramount) was before the cameras when its star, Jack Benny, was convicted of cheating the U. S. Government of duty on trinkets for his wife. Paramount's chin-up reply to this embarrassing publicity was to hold a world premiere of the film in Waukegan, Ill., where Comedian Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky 45 years ago. The film, another Jack Benny performance of his standard screen personality, a garrulous, cigar-chewing gull ready to be talked into anything once, is almost an exculpation in itself...
...Reich's custody. He was reported in good health but morose, convinced he would not be free before the collapse of Naziism. The Government, which has offered him release on condition that he refrain from preaching, gave the screw a turn by threatening to evict Niemoller's wife and seven children from his old rectory. Two thousand members of the Dahlem congregation approved a protest declaring: "This is not . . . Christian. . . . We consider Pastor Niemoller, though he may be imprisoned, as our rightfully chosen minister...
...seismographic oil prospecting, not only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works. Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles...
...Chicago, Rudolph Spielvogel, whose wife, Erika, wanted a divorce, told the court: "When my wife would provoke me, I would hit and kick myself. Then I would know how much it would have hurt her. . . ." Countered Wife Erika, his aim was sometimes poor: "He swung a pot of hot coffee and struck me with it." She got the divorce...