Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Helpmeet. In Springfield, Mass., Ralph Baughn's sentence for hacking at his wife with a carving knife was suspended when she explained to the judge: "He was only playing around like husbands...
Vital Statistics. Age: 57 (born March 19, 1891 in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street). Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married...
Sharp-tongued Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, barged into Rockford, Ill. last week and delivered herself of some comments on Harry Truman's new White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that...
...FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom...
Exceptional acting in the main roles overcomes the picture's constant danger of falling into absurdity. Katina Paxinou plays Ezra Mannon's voluptuous, murderous wife with such a convincing mixture of malice and weakness that one forgets completely that the character is itself unrealistic and even ludicrous. Her murder of Ezra is revenged by her two children, the weak Orin, and the strong Lavina (the Electra of Aeschylus). After killing their mother's lover and making her commit suicide, they are obsessed by their own guilt, and Orin, who is played superbly by Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia...