Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...papers given to her by a friend of Eisler's, a "perfectly honest person," who thought that the case had not been examined carefully enough. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt: "Why not do it all over again and bring it out in the open and let [Eisler and his wife] defend themselves...
Just before he leaves home in the morning, the average working-class husband in Mexico City gives his wife el gasto (expense money). Depending on his income, he doles out 5 to 25 pesos ($1 to $5). Then his wife starts on what used to be a pleasant round of spending...
...huts. A curly-haired Pole, 19, announced proudly that he was a tractorista, that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another, a bank clerk in Italy, had a job as a hotel waiter. Said he: "You have to start somewhere...
Last Sunday night, for example, Mrs. Theodore Brown, wife of a third-year law student, was having baby trouble. Her 13-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been wheezing all evening. Her husband was out of town. Her pediatrician was in Manchester for the weekend. Along about midnight, she was afraid that the wheezing might be something serious...
...producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience and the detective when a harmless soldier, who is first suspected of the crime, bemoans the absence of his wife. He eventually ends up very happily with her, to the greater glory of the institution of marriage and the lesser glory of plot continuity...