Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still sticking by the copybook, Wilson, a moderate drinker and smoker, will keep on walking at least a mile every night for exercise, taking an interest in local government and the Boy Scouts, commuting from Glen Ridge, N.J., where he lives in a seven-room house with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. His new job (salary: over $75,000 a year) will mean no change in his routine, except that "the night force will be seeing a lot more...
...turned out, possession of this incalculable hope brought only bewilderment, suffering, terror and tragedy to the fisherman and his wife (Maria Elena Marques) and to their infant son. Dealers tried to deceive them; ruffians tried to corrupt and divide them. The poor fisherman had to kill to defend his treasure and his own life. In consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready...
...because he was pursued by his revengeful father. He seduced an heiress, and contrived to be discovered with her, so as to marry her. They lived in a gloomy old castle infested with bugs. Mirabeau bankrupted himself trying to bring it up to the standard of luxury his wife had always known. Cuckolded, he forgave his wife. Meanwhile his sister had quarreled with her husband, who took to printing obscene verses about her, and Mirabeau took her part...
...Lettres de cachet were one of the causes of the Revolution. Under them a husband could lock up his wife, a father his son, or the state could exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...
...high French Alpine village, Corinne Audal has lived for two years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal...