Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately. During the war she became accustomed to all sorts of emergencies, including this one: someone telephoned from his office and asked to see her at once on an important matter. When he arrived, he asked to be shown how to make a hospital bed. It seemed that his wife had missed her first-aid lesson that day and had called on him for help...
...says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot of it was that the innocent husband, like any TIMEman, went home with a pocket...
...Wall Street Journal surveyed nine major agricultural areas, found that farm income for January and February had topped last year's by 25%. In California, farmers who used to buy cheap cars on credit were plunking down cash for Buicks and Chryslers. In Nebraska, a farmer's wife who used to lay out $5 every six months for a cotton dress walked out of an Omaha department store with two smart woolen suits at $89.95 each...
Then, in 1930, when his wife Sarah died, he got the answer. After he buried her he called in the local tombstone merchant, and told him to get to work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as thick as a bomb shelter. He also wanted two marble statues: Sarah and John M. Davis as young folks, sitting discreetly at opposite ends of a love seat. The statues were made in Italy, modeled after pictures from the Davis photo album and they cost a mint of money...
...years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...