Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...once entertained certain strangers in his house, and . . . did not find out until after they [left] that they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own room to an elderly stranger and his wife, two years later had the kindness repaid when the stranger (William Waldorf Astor) made him manager of Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...there was the big tea for parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
...Pope's position was more strict than the stand of the Church of England (which also opposes the use of donors). A commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury held st year: "If, for the insemination of a wife with ner husband's semen, there is no practicable alterative to masturbation by the husband, his act being directed to the procreative end of the marriage, may be justifiable...
...sometimes even requiring hypnosis. At 35, Salter is an acknowledged master of the behavioristic school's technique. With it, he claims to have cured a businessman of blushing, a young woman of stuttering, a society girl of flatulence, an ex-cabin boy of homosexuality, a doctor and his wife of morphine addiction...