Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Ike were his wife, onetime Democratic Handyman George Allen and his wife, and William E. Robinson, executive vice president of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. They had come to Augusta for a vacation. They stepped into a waiting car and were whisked away...
...similarity to a Bugs Bunny flick. As a naive Irish seaman, Welles becomes involved with as sinister a party of rich people as ever paced the deek of a pleasure yacht. Working for them on a trip to the Tropics, he falls in love with Rita Hayworth, the wife of "the most successful criminal lawyer in the country." In order to make enough money to take her away with him, he gets mixed up in a setup murder that is as bewildering to the audience as it is to Welles...
...Curious Wife. Their married life was typical of the officer set-dinners with the colonel, shooting-parties, receptions and balls at the best London houses. But Desmond never let social splendor spoil his sense of kindness. He paid constant visits to a crippled veteran who had been his batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous...
...Wifely curiosity soon got the better of Harriet. One night, she opened Desmond's briefcase and found a manuscript signed with his name. "With reference to Bureaux Instruction," she read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...
...down on them, and shot himself," the reader is in the authentic Chekhov atmosphere. Occasionally, as in the letters, Chekhov drops his attitude of severe objectivity and speaks about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly, it's not so dull, and besides, neither of them loses anything from my infidelity...