Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Volumes. Earlier in the week, the President had dispatched his plane, The Independence, to Venezuela for President Rómulo Gallegos and his wife, was on hand to welcome them when they arrived at Washington's National Airport. Along with their wives, Presidents Truman and Gallegos posed for pictures on the new White House balcony. At an official White House dinner, the President presented Gallegos (whom he called Venezuela's "greatest modern litterateur") with the Legion of Merit. Gallegos replied that he was "proud to shake the hand of so sincere and simple a man as the President...
...Room Services. In 1920, after his wife shut herself up as a recluse in their three-story Denver mansion, Charles Boettcher moved to a ninth-floor suite in the famed Brown Palace Hotel, which he owned. Hotel employees watched him every night as he went down in the elevator, walked across the street to a drugstore, bought a container of Coca-Cola, and carried it back to his room. Asked why he did not order from room service, Boettcher demanded indignantly: "And pay the prices we ask here?" Frequently, he would be spotted behind a screen in a dingy tailor...
General Clay (his wife reported) "was happy as a kid" when he got reports from Washington last week that more C-54s were on their way to Berlin from Alaska and the Caribbean...
...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...
...victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...