Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist prelate, Oxnam has two unusual hobbies; the theater and art. He and his wife go to every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign...
...Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where he keeps five phones jingling, his privacy has a public atmosphere: he is redecorating the dining room...
...Generation to School. Beard's influence spread beyond his colleagues, the historians. During the '20s, with his wife Mary, he wrote a brilliant and provocative survey history of the U.S., The Rise of American Civilization. The book became a standard work in U.S. schools and colleges. A whole generation of Americans learned their U.S. history in Uncle Charlie's school...
Family Circle. In Cleveland, Beer-Parlor Owner Stanley Siemen sued his in-laws for alienation of affections, charged that they had encouraged his wife to smooch the customers into buying more drinks...
...Cromer, England, Edward Atkins explained to police: "I shot my wife because she told me to, and I have always done what I was told." In Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, José Licea explained why he had shot his sister-in-law: he had mistaken her for his wife...