Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, one Lawrence Riemer, mild-mannered piano player, was convicted of manslaughter for strangling his wife, a former circus tattooed lady. "She asked me to marry her," he explained. "She was tattooed all over, but I figured I might as well. I was lonely. . . . Then I found out she was like a wild woman...
...died firmly believing that his wife would be released after six months in jail. But Adolf Hitler conceived a better idea for the only American surely in his power. At the Führer's personal order Mildred was beheaded. She was only 40, but weeks of torture, said a prison chaplain who saw her killed, had aged her by 20 years...
Sitting on Air. As a start, Dali was exhibiting one he had not yet mastered. He had spent only three months on it so far, and he figured it would need another four. The "masterpiece-in-progress" was an expert, academic picture of his wife Gala, sitting naked on the air, with a swan...
...Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) wishes she weren't. The bishop (David Niven) spends so much time laboring in the vineyard that there is none left for his own garden. It seems that nothing less than a miracle can salvage his marriage...
Nothing less than an angel, handsomely disguised as Cary Grant, comes to ease the bishop's burdens. The first thing the angel takes off his hands is the bishop's wife (Loretta Young). In vain does the bishop protest her having so many dates with an angel. Matters advance until the angel, feeling all too human about the lady, makes her what seems dangerously like a celestial proposition. This horrifies her, and the angel reluctantly returns to a heaven which,he indicates clearly, is a hell of a place as far as he is concerned...