Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among his literary favorites he includes, in addition to Russian classics, Hugo. Balzac, Goethe, Shakespeare, Mark Twain. His favorite U.S. movies include Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His father was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister living in Gomel. He met his wife in college, in Minsk...
...Gromyko rarely smiles. At a dinner party, Mrs. Roger Lapham (wife of San Francisco's mayor) asked him: "What do you think of American women?" Gromyko's answer: "I am not impressed." The lady was about to turn her back on him when he explained: "Mrs. Lapham, it is a joke...
...home ground. He came of Marlboroughs. He recalled that he had been born in that house and played on those grounds. He said it with a lifting of the head and a wistful ranging of his old eyes across the peopled loveliness. Here he had proposed to his wife, he added, turning with a graceful bow to white-haired Clementine, swathed in silvery pink...
There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...