Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife of a mortician. If you could see, for even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that...
...still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support a wife and a flying machine...
...remark heard the other day went something like, "A gracious house, sure; but it must be hard to heat." "Ireland's Folly," whispered Cambridge when the seemingly pretentious building was erected, and of course they were partly right, for within two years the owner and his social-climbing wife were bankrupt, and Fay House went to Joseph McKean, the Boylston Professor of Rhetotic and Oratory...
...president of Radcliffe, Fay House was dominated by its womenfolk. For three years in the 1830's the daughters of Daniel Davis made Castle Corners, as it was called, famous for its hospitality. Then in 1835, Judge Samuel Fay bought the place, and for the next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same time, all shelling peas. It was also in Fay House that the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a friend...
...year old graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College died peacefully in his sleep. He suffered a heart aliment. Present with Lamont were his wife and two of their children, cordless Lamont '24 and Mrs. C. C. Cunningham...