Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...
Once, in rehearsal, Toscanini directed his scorn at big-voiced Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, who has done the role of Otello at the Met. Said Toscanini: "Haven't you ever been in love? You have to be persuasive and gentle in love-even if she is your wife...
...should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim, attractive wife, Helen, who often rides the range with him, usually adds: "Also, he'd rather be on a horse...
...ranch trusteeship expired, the property was divided among the heirs.* The Klebergs got 431,000 acres and formed the King Ranch Corp. with Bob as president and manager, and Dick, then a Congressman, as chairman. The stock is held in equal fifths by Bob, Dick, their sisters Henrietta (wife of Celanese Corp. Vice President John A. Larkin), Mrs. Alice East, and the two sons of Sarah (who was killed in an auto accident). By purchase, Bob Kleberg has built the ranch's holdings up to 750,000 acres, leased 140,000 more to the corporation from his own holdings...
...opening collection of 1,000 pictures, the best one-volume pictorial history of the U.S. around. The accompanying text was almost of necessity an oversimplification of U.S. history. In the field of nostalgia, I Remember Distinctly, another big picture book, by Frederick Lewis Allen and his wife, showed the nation with its manners down between wars. After seven years in Mexico, Ralph Roeder turned up with Juarez and His Mexico, possibly the best written and ablest history of the year...