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Word: wife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Miami, when police arrested E. Manuel Berman for stealing 100 pairs of panties from a lingerie shop, he declared that it was all his wife's fault: "I'm glad I got caught. No telling what she'd have made me do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

This week the committee would look into the commodity holdings of one of its own members: Oklahoma's Democrat Elmer Thomas. After his wife's name had bobbed up on a list of cotton traders, Senator Thomas said he would send his brokerage records to the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Muckraker's Progress | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Business School lineup: assorted horns, traps and players, Dixleland jazz band; seven throats and larynx, the Millionaires; ten graduates' fraus, the Wife-en-poofs; excetras, the Baker Workshop Players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School to Air 'Hucksters' Holiday' | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

Wages & Hours. In Waukesha, Wis., John Szibel sued for divorce, said his wife demanded 75? an hour for housework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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