Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair Game. In Los Angeles, long-suffering Selah Forsythe charged John Forsythe with wife-beating, got her case thrown out of court when the judge discovered that she and John were not legally married...
Eyesore. In Houston, a deaf-mute husband applied for a divorce from his deaf-mute wife; he was sick & tired, he averred, of her sign-language nagging...
Recipe. In Memphis, a queasy husband seeking a divorce complained to the court that his wife cooked him up a one-dish breakfast composed of a layer of beans, one of sardines, one of salmon, topped with a cake...
Married. Serge Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, 73, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Olga Naumoff, 46, spinster niece of his second wife (who died in 1942), and his secretary for 18 years; near Lenox, Mass...
...talkatively intense 40, Leneman is proud of being a family man (three children) as well as an artist. Explaining that he scratches thin lines with his fingernails, he adds, with a wistful look at his chubby hands, that his nails used to be longer "but I always scratched my wife and she made me cut them...