Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indigestible. In Bristol, England, a divorce was granted to Arthur lies, who testified that shortly after his wife refused to eat with him he found her serving lunch-in-bed to a strange...
...detective work ("The thing you've got to have in both is presence of mind"). The Police Department has cited him twice for bravery, once for rescuing two kids from a burning building, the other time for catching two armed bandits with his bare hands. His wife, an expert fencer, has passed her exams for policewoman...
...Monsanto, technological upheavals were an old experience. When roughhewn John Francis Queeny formed the St. Louis company in 1901 (he named it Monsanto after his Spanish-Portuguese wife), it was for the purpose of making saccharin. In rapid succession he branched out into medicines and industrial chemicals and dyes. By 1928, when his son Edgar Monsanto Queeny took over, Monsanto had four plants, was grossing a comfortable $6,150,000 a year...
...this is madness! Clark has a nice wife (Anne Baxter) in the States, and, by all that's Hollywood, he must go back to her. So Lana has to be disposed of finally-but not until her fans have seen plenty of Lana at the operating table, Lana at a Roman bath, Lana in the Battle of the Bulge, Lana on her deathbed...
...Unsafe Man. Husband & wife were equally well-read, equally opposed to pedantic thinking ("Anything clear and definite," said Henry, "is only another word for limited"), hard-working and unsentimental ("I know I value some qualities more than tenderheartedness," said Annette). In his office of district judge, Henry was a stern man, but in his general opinions he was usually unorthodox. "Every European in India is more or less in a false position," he said; "[the natives'] dislike and distrust of us are reasonable...