Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...months ago, Bobo went to Palm Beach to visit Polo Player Winston Guest and his blonde wife "Zizi." A fortnight ago, Rockefeller boarded an Eastern Airlines plane for Miami. He narrowly escaped being killed when one of the plane's engines exploded (TIME, Feb. 16). When he joined Bobo, they decided to get married as soon as possible. The decision set off a series of magnificent improvisations...
...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...
...railroad company turned him down as a clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore the crest of the Dukes of Argyll, from whom she was descended through her paternal grandmother). Guiltily, he wrote to Engels: "My wife cried all night and that infuriates...
Upholding an opposite viewpoint on night working is Cambridge tax-driver Bill Maddox, who asserts "I want to get away from my wife. That's why I work nights. I'd rather work ten hours a night and spend the day in bed, because it gives me a chance to be my boss...