Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find how understanding and sympathetic was the Queen's attitude toward the social problems faced today by everyone." After tea, the President and King took a swim in the White House pool. So did Mrs. Roosevelt, Son Elliott & wife...
...trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.-first British sovereign ever to do so. A royal red carpet was spread on the station platform at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and when the blue & silver royal train slid in, Secretary of State Cordell Hull & wife stepped up to welcome the visitors. Mr. Hull said: "Your Majesties, on behalf of the Government and the people of the United States, I have the honor and pleasure of extending to you our warmest welcome. All are delighted with your visit...
...there would be no autograph hunters, newspaper reporters and jumping-jack photographers lurking around the corners. There would be no cranks, columnists and newshawks to beset him from a distance. There would be no need for an armed guard around the Morrow estate in Englewood, N. J. where his wife and two sons live. And in heaven he would not have to endure his own unyielding but logical resentment against...
...while Lear was a Pre-Raphaelite. With Painters Holman Hunt and J. E. Millais (whom Lear called "Uncle" when he didn't call him "Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...
...Crawford, traveling salesman for a picture-frame firm, always hoped to make more than $30 a week, but never got much more, even after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...