Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worldly Goods. In Berkeley, Calif., James D. Morton explained to the judge why his traffic fine had not been paid: he had given his wife the money to do it, and she had used it for a down payment on a divorce...
Headwinds. As the week opened, Bob Taft hurried in to repair his earlier flub on farm prices, assured the voters that he meant revision, not reduction, of the parity ratio. While Taft took the low road (North Platte, Grand Island, Crete, Beatrice, Wahoo), wife Martha took the high road (Hyannis, Broken Bow, York, Seward, O'Neill). In three jampacked days, Bob addressed 8,000 in 13 speeches; Martha delivered a dozen more...
...local laundry not long age had to deal with a married student who left in his pocket a love letter, not to his wife. He called sometime later, frantically begging the proprietor to find the billet doux before the clothes were delivered. Searching every suit in the shop, they found...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...
...adored his wife, and the only other woman in whom he ever showed so much as "interest"' was a rugged member of the London Technical Education Board. Placed next to that noted Edwardian beauty, Lady Desborough, at dinner, Sidney only wondered why she had such a "silly trick of shutting her eyes...