Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past my house again...
...public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant, cheese and bread prepared in Yemenite fashion by Mrs. Sam Mafey, the Yemen-born wife of a Phillips employee...
Died. Princess Olga Radziwill, 60, wife of Prince Leon Radziwill of Nieswiez and Kleck, who owned an estate in Poland (until the Russian invasion in 1939) which was once larger than Belgium; in Monaco, where the couple lived in exile...
Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...
...which could never be too broad for its model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...