Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Give & Take. In Cleveland, William Mate was granted a divorce after telling the court that his wife regularly took $147 out of his regular $147.50 paycheck. In Chicago, Betty Bajorin complained to the judge that her husband threw eggs...
Checkmate. In Los Angeles, Henry Gordon's wife complained to police that he had locked her indoors, made her play chess with him for two days running, and she never won once; when she finally tried a little cheating, he chased her out into the street and thrashed...
According to the Tax Commissioner's Office, men declaring legal residence in Massachusetts will not be subject to stringent tax policies. Massachusetts assesses a two dollar Poll Tax on all citizens and allows residents a $2000 state income tax exemption plus an additional $500 deduction per wife...
There is an old Massachusetts Blue Law that a man may not kiss his wife on Sunday. Equally absurd, but somewhat less hilarious, is a forty-year-old ruling of the Harvard Administrative Board that rigidly pegs the dates for Spring and Summer term make-ups squarely in the center of the October hour exam period. An inflexible examination schedule that could conceivably force a man to take a three-hour final and two hour exams in one day not only places an undue strain on the student, but also leads to unsatisfactory grades in both testing groups. Only those...
...arena for this performance, an aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls...