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Word: wife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nature Lesson. In Los Angeles, Harold Bellis told a divorce court that when he accused wife Sonya of promiscuity, she retorted:. "The birds and bees do it, and I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...boiler in Chicago's Northwestern Station; the noise was terrific. A band was playing and some of the fellows and their wives were singing The Old Grey Mare and some more were singing Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here. Lean Jim Dowling bent over his tiny wife and yelled at her: "I'm not kidding. I'm just about sick with excitement. Think of all the wonderful things we're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: All the Wonderful Things | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...stop at Colorado Springs and another for a look at the Royal Gorge and there was a bus trip into the mountains in Utah and swimming in the Great Salt Lake ("you float in that water"). Out of Salt Lake City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that set it off. When it was over, there were 29 empty whiskey bottles in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: All the Wonderful Things | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...were likely to embark. Involved were no state troopers, autograph seekers, photographers, special trains or big names. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), balding Harold Stassen just got into his 1946 Ford sedan and drove from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down for two weeks of loafing, swimming, reading and old-fashioned porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Man from Minnesota | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Connecticut Congressman John Davis Lodge's good-looking, exactress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who has been teaching health-dancing to other Washington ladies (TIME, March 17) took a flier in another field, gave instructions to girl delegates to the American Legion School of Democracy. "My definition of character," said she, "is the ability to say no to yourself. Don't run your motor too hard, girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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