Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlborough's headmaster answered civilly but uncommunicatively. Others were less civil. Sneath wrote to George Bernard Shaw, reminding him of "the long-standing connections between your late wife's family and the school" and asking his attendance at the tercentenary. Replied G.B.S.: "Never heard of any such connection. Too old (91), anyhow...
Exiled Peter of Yugoslavia, visiting the U.S. with wife Alexandra and son Alexander, attended Serbian Orthodox Easter services in Manhattan. Royalists in the congregation greeted him with the Serbians' tactful cry that fits every distinguished guest: "Zivio"-meaning simply "Long live...
Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...
...Manhattan: Radio Funnyman Henry Morgan and his statuesque blonde wife Isobel agreed that they were more congenial apart.* After 20 months of marriage, she sued for separation, asked $750 a week temporary alimony. She complained that he had once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled: "Poor lady, your husband has been killed in an automobile accident !" He had also ripped off her pearl choker in a restaurant, she said; complained about her cooking and thrown food in her face; suggested that she commit suicide ("It would be very dramatic. It would end all your troubles...
...congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect in the central nervous system. No cure is known. Last week Beverly's mother, Mrs. Victor Smith, wife of a Firestone employee, took the baby home with a lot of advice from the doctors. She must watch Beverly constantly: the baby might break a bone and continue using it until it could not be set properly; she might develop appendicitis without nature's usual warning of pain...