Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to two years in jail for masterminding the crookery that got Radio Star Jack Benny and Comedian George Burns into the law's toils (TIME, April 17). Last week Attorney Cahill sent to Governor Lehman information tending to show that Judge Edgar Lauer knew plenty about his wife's smuggling. Four days later Judge Lauer resigned...
John Husted tried three times to get into the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Best he could manage was a job on a passenger ship as a yeoman, the maritime equivalent of a male stenographer. Then he got a job in a shipyard, a wife, an apartment in Manhattan. When 29 ships and 10,000 officers & men of the U. S. Navy hove in for the World's Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever...
...high on his sleeve, a real Rear Admiral and a real Commander decided he was no spy, whisked him off the ship, plopped him into a city jail. Next day, instead of sending John Husted to jail for impersonating an officer, they condemned him to return to his wife and to the laughter of men who had not been caught at their daydreaming...
...capitals Litvinoff rode around in a shiny limousine with a tiny red flag attached, stayed at luxurious hotels, ate fine foods, drank good wines, dressed like the traditional diplomat. At home he made no such concessions to bourgeois tastes. He lived in a modest flat with his English-born wife and two handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory, and left him blushing...
Commissar's official mansion, where she was inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign...