Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert was the Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. In 1905, Maritain, then a God-seeking philosophy student, and his young wife, Raïssa, visited Léon Bloy for the first time. They found in him the spiritual inspiration they had been looking...
Last week, as Michigan State began its spring quarter, 150 more families had moved into the Valley to join the 2,000 young couples already there. Each new wife was promptly visited by a delegate from the "Spartan Wives," a sort of feminine union dedicated to proving that not all the education at East Lansing goes on in the classrooms. The Spartan Wives knew that sooner or later a new wife would get acquainted, usually at a community service building ("That's where the water, laundry and toilets are -where you meet all your friends"). But they...
With Fertile Valley's recreation hall as the main schoolhouse, the Spartan Wives now sponsor classes in everything from motherhood to swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...
...tinhorn gambler with a heart of pure gold. As junior partner in a plushy gambling house, he is suspected of the murder of a crooked cop (Jim Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such coy head-jerkings and pregnant silences that only a hardened whodunit...
...policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder and his best friend's treachery, Ivan abdicates. At the end of the picture, by request of the common people, he returns to the throne, confident of "everlasting rule." As Eisenstein tells it, this vindication of Ivan becomes, by many parallels, a vindication of Stalin and his regime...