Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Qualification. In Spokane. Wash., a husband denied, during divorce proceedings, that he beat his wife over the head seven times with a broiler; it was only three times, he averred, and with a lunch bucket...
...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...
...locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that he has sent his wife to live with her mother in the country because he can't afford to keep her; he prefers to let his friends think he is getting a divorce...
...proud of him," said Heinrich Himmler's granite-hard wife Margarete soon after he killed himself. Last week from Germany came reports that three times she had tried the same trick herself. But Margarete lacked Heinrich's skill. Wanted in Bavaria for trial as a Nazi, she was locked in a lunatic asylum at Bielefeld in the British zone, "a physical and moral wreck...
...wife of New York Times Correspondent Brooks Atkinson (whose last year's Russian dispatches won him this year's Pulitzer Prize), Oriana was never permitted to leave Moscow during her stay in Russia. But her restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites...