Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marine Fireworks. Candidate Douglas has none too happy a reputation with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...
Last week, from her Manhattan hotel suite, Arline announced that she would contest her husband's divorce. Bob, said Arline somewhat crossly, was using the Connecticut courts "as a tool to enable him to exchange one wife for another." Lana promptly backtracked. She could under no circumstances announce her engagement "to a man who is not free," she said...
...vicar's wife told me a little owl fell down her chimney, and that he was as black as a sweep; she picked him up and he fainted. She fetched brandy and gave him some in a spoon and he revived. She put him out of doors and his mother flew down and collected him. I once picked up a tawny owl after a gale; he was apparently dead, but he came round after some time spent on hot pipes. It is surprising what warmth will...
Henry Ford II's 29-year-old wife, Anne, skiing at Sun Valley, broke an ankle...
...Marrakech, Morocco, Winston Churchill, 73, was out & around after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...