Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comforts of Home. Near Askov, Minn., a search party finally found the hunter who had packed his gear in the dark, gone into the wilds with his wife's compact instead of his compass...
...Philadelphia, when Lorenzo Brokenbaugh admitted that he had four wives, Judge Raymond MacNeille gave him 9 to 18 months and a piece of his legal mind: "You're setting a bad example for those of us who have only one wife...
Harry Truman kept smiling, but his wife was tuckered out. Gamely they had pumped more than 1,200 hands of foreign diplomats, U.S. Cabinet officers, Congressmen and their wives. Last week's annual White House diplomatic reception-the second since the war-was, as usual, peacock-splendid, stiff with protocol and hardly hilarious...
First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...complaints was almost wistful: "If I don't get out of the hospital, for heaven's sake see that the next governor of Michigan has a place in which to live." The state has no governor's mansion. Governor Sigler lives with his wife in a three-room suite in the Olds Hotel across the street from the Capitol in Lansing. He said it gives him "cloisteritis...