Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the general came his beauteous wife, black-haired, alabaster-skinned Rani Kaiser, 33 years his junior, and their 3½-year-old daughter Tani (Nepalese for "tugger...
...Mayflower, there was one empty table. Although South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston, a coon-shouting white-supremacy man, had bought ten tickets, he and his guests stayed away, he said, because his wife feared that she might have to sit next to a "Nigra." (There were three Negroes at the dinner; they sat at one table-in the rear.) Senator Johnston sent an emissary to make sure that nobody else sat at his table. He ate dinner at home, helped his wife dish up the vittles, and called in photographers to record the touching scene...
...Floogie Bird." The President, who with wife & daughter appeared at both dinners, was at his best at the Statler. There he got off some impromptu remarks which were just what the audience wanted to hear. He said there would be a lot of talk between now and November, "very, very little of which will be the truth." If the voters know the truth, he added, they "will not turn the Government over to a bunch of reactionaries who are trying to take us back to 1896. Conditions are too grave in the world at the present time...
...Louis, planning to retire from the ring after one more fight next June, was giving some thought to a new job. Off for an exhibition tour of England, with wife Marva, Joe mused to shipboard reporters: "Some kind of politics . . . but I don't know what kind." He hadn't decided when, but "everybody eventually goes into politics...
Saarinen's plans, drawn up with the help of his wife (a sculptor) and three aides, called for a tree-dotted, 80-acre area around the arch with two museums, an open-air theater, a tea terrace, a frontier village and five sculptural monuments. The arch itself, said proud St. Louisans, would mark their city like the Eiffel Tower or the Washington Monument...