Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost her in a nearby theater. Then they turned on the studio itself-breaking equipment and furniture until the police arrived and nabbed ten of the gang. Still smarting, they marched to Little Happiness' home, on Yunnan Road, climbed up to his second-story flat, slapped his wife. But of the thin, sharp face of Little Happiness they found not so much as a smirk. He was elsewhere, in hiding...
...live bullfrog jumping around in each plate. The result of all this was that he went bankrupt. A few years later Dr. Andrew Craigie bought the mansion, giving it its present name. Another extravagant fellow, he added two piazzas and tried desperately to make his young, beautiful, and eccentric wife happy there. But he went bankrupt, too, and only left the house on Sundays because he couldn't be arrested then. When Craigie died of apoplexy in 1819, his wife stayed on, reading French novels in the front window and watching the beautiful elm trees being eaten up by canker...
Contrary to common impressions of a flery-eyed demazogue, Gerald V.K. Smith is a mild man with large red hands who occasionally mixes his metaphors and always calls his wife "mother...
Harassed by poor subordinates and the absence of his wife, Washington paced the rooms of the house, and gazed abstractedly from the windows at the view of the Charles, that reminded him pleasantly of his home by the Potomac. Longfellow, probably standing demurely at the same spot, conceived the lines...
...Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe, Don Pedro II of Brazil, Hawthorne, and Dickens. But in 1861 Longfellow's bustling happiness was cut short. His wife, sealing up packages of her daughter's curls, caught her dress on fire, and although he tried to save her, he was unsuccessful...