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Word: wife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spirit of Warm Springs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...wife of a Peer, Miss Little acts from choice; she stated, "I love every minute of it, but if it ever does become boring I'm afraid I shall quit. Each performance is a new experience for me. I never deliver my lines the same--the audience really sets the pace for the show. If they play ball, I have a wonderful time doing my best to satisfy them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatrice Lillie Finds Career Packed With Fun; Every Curtain An Event | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Born. To John Boettiger, 39. publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and his wife, the former Anna Roosevelt Dall, 32, a son, their first child; in Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...waistline: 7 ft.), and Joy, 27, 420 Ibs. (waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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