Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...
Beginning in 1930, Ellerman worked for five years on the first volume. Day after day he pegged away in the Natural History and British Museums, speaking to no one but the director and technical assistants. Each night he and his wife would pore over the day's notes, and she would draw anatomical sketches...
Died. Mariette Rheiner ("Ettie") Garner, 79, capable wife of the 32nd Vice President, his "righthand man" for half a century; of a neurological ailment; in Uvalde, Tex. Ettie married Judge John Nance Garner in 1895, served as his private secretary when he was elected to the House in 1902, as second lady of the land (1933-1940) shunned Washington's social life...
...psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...