Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business to his associates, while he went in for yachting, flying (with a hired pilot), investment (aviation, banking). No man to run from an honest dollar, he has made a huge estate in New York's Thousand Islands not only a luxurious nook for himself, his wife and two subdeb daughters, but a profitable attraction for summer tourists, who pay 35? a head to view its splendors. When Franklin Roosevelt last year picked him to get CAA off to a good start, Ed Noble sold his aviation holdings, soon made a record as a better-than-average public administrator...
...Court. For his first chore he had the pleasant duty of swearing in the Court's newest and youngest member, ex-SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas, 40. As Franklin Roosevelt's fourth appointee took his seat at the extreme left, he rubbed his nose, smiled at his wife and nine-year-old son, Bill Jr. Deprived while on the bench of his usual cigaret, Justice Douglas nervously twiddled a red rubber band as Justice Roberts read two momentous decisions...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Timberman served on the same jury. Balloting for the verdict, Mr. Timberman voted for the defendant, his wife for the plaintiff. Final verdict: for the defendant. Boasted Mr. Timberman: "She soon came around to my way of thinking...
...when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife-or his mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." In London last month Dr. Gogarty sued Kavanagh for libel...
...comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably...