Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flattering, some not so flattering, yet I never recall the statement which you attribute to me [''Who once described himself as 'a centaur gadding about with nymphs, or Solomon dickering with his harem' "-TIME, May 10] ... So I put my research staff (consisting of my wife and myself) to work, and we finally dug up a review of my retrospective show of two years ago, in which a critic had said this about my work: "His early etchings of the 19205 show him, to be a painter of a private paradise whose homeland is alternately...
Born. To Red Skelton, 34, rubber-faced, baby-talking radio and cinema comic, and second wife Georgia Maureen Davis Skelton, 26, retired starlet: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Richard Freeman. Weight...
...study of the five Little Foxes and how they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
...Markoosha* Fischer, Russian-born wife of oldtime Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer, revisited Russia in 1922 and lived in Moscow from 1927 to 1939. In My Lives in Russia (TIME, June 19, 1944), she told how she had changed from an enthusiastic partisan of the Soviet Union into a horrified witness of the Stalinist police state...
...wished to devote all his time to literature, yet yearned for the satisfactions of conventional family life. He thought of his "possible future wife and possible children," only to realize that his ill health (he died of tuberculosis at 40) would prevent him from having either. "It seems so dreadful to be a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company . . . never being able to run up a stairway beside one's wife . . . having to admire other people...