Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trenton, N.J. butcher, 34-year-old Preacher Burger butchered and dishwashed his way through Wooster College, then went to Yale Divinity School. For two years he had a parish at Graniteville, Vt., for four at Haverhill, Mass. But, though he has a wife and three children at South Ryegate, Vt., it will suit him fine if he never has another "civilized" parish. He doesn't particularly relish the black flies, mosquitoes and winter temperatures-but he prefers them to elders, sewing circles and church suppers...
...Many of the brokers chew gum to keep their throats moist. The throat is important here. When you want to buy or sell, you have to be able to attract attention. Another flurry starts. 'Sell one Sep fifteen. . . . Sell five Christmas. . . . Sell July one five, think of wife and kids.' Then suddenly the noise fades out, the waving of fingers stops...
Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
While Neil is innocently advancing toward this discovery, Author Lewis is sentimentally setting the stage for it. Neil is shown to have a lovely white wife, a little daughter "with [a] skin of strawberries and cream," a high-class home in a "restricted" residential district. Posed before Neil Kingsblood is the agonizing moral question: must I admit "my touch of the tarbrush" when I know what misery this admission will create for my wife and child...
...white community with loaded dice, and his chief means of supporting the colored is to go all-out in discriminating against the white. When Neil publicly confesses his Negro blood, and associates with Negroes, he loses every single one of the friends he has known since boyhood, his wife is the only woman who will stand by him, and there is not one employer in Grand Republic who will defy the outraged city fathers by giving him a steady job. Only in the last, melodramatic chapter-which reads like a climax by James M. Cain-does Author Lewis feel...