Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose Wife Will Say . . ." A fair answer would be: probably a great deal. During Milan's disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
...loyalty and freedom from potentially embarrassing family obligations. One militia leader explained: "We don't want anyone who has children so small they can't be cared for by nuns and not big enough to take care of themselves. And we don't want anyone whose wife will say at a crucial moment, 'Carino, be very careful...
White Blossoms. Roerich never returned to the U.S. With his wife and son he retired far from the world of Wallaces and Peglers to his beloved Kulu Valley in the Punjab, the "Silver Valley." "Whether in winter," he once wrote, "when the snowy cover sparkles, or in spring, when all the fruit trees are covered with snowy-white blossoms, the valley equally well merits this name." He had noted that its healthy people did not have cancer. There Roerich, drinking in the mysteries of Hindu and Buddhist shrines, also tried to learn what diet or beneficent rays or simple ways...
...Pasadena, Calif., an all-male jury considered the case against Sugar Heir John D. Spreckels III, whose blonde wife, Lou Dell, charged that he had whaled her with a poker. Pondering in private for 7½ hours, the jury decided that...
...business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...