Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were closed, for no pupils would attend. Bazaars and fairs shut down. Panicky villagers feared that 108 children would be kidnaped for sacrifice.* They picked 108 as the proper figure because that is sacred to Hindus. Rama, for instance, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the Protector, offered his wife Sita 108 lotuses, each with 108 petals...
Smack in the midst of the first sessions, Eva Perón will show up in Rio. For her there will be more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 33, seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...
Columnist Igor Cassini, who as Cholly Knickerbocker is Hearst's No. i know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
...Bailey's Beach, at staid old Newport, R.I., the ex-Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke encountered the present Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke, wife of the heir to oleomargarine millions, and briskly conked her with an inflated inner tube...