Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shots required by foreign service, she is likely to hear from correspondents or photographers, wherever they go, requesting this or that drug, a favorite prescription, some needed advice. Not long ago a photographer in a remote part of China cabled frantically for a rush order of medication for his wife, who was momentarily expecting a child...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-loss. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
...production, which ends its five-day run Saturday with a matinee and evening performance, has Theodore Allegretti '47 and Helen McClosky starring in roles of "Captain" Jack Boyle and Juno Boyle, his wife...
...American Academy of Arts & Letters conferred its Good Speech Medal on Alfred Lunt (whose co-star wife, Lynn Fontanne, won the medal...
Monsieur Verdoux (United Artists), Charles Spencer Chaplin's first film since The Great Dictator (1940), is the story of a middle-aged French bank clerk who loses his job during a depression. Tenderly devoted to his invalid wife, his little boy, and their security, and disastrously ill-equipped to fend for them in a prolapsed economy, he nevertheless manages to set up in business for himself. The business: murder...