Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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License Fee. In Mayo, Md., Salesman Roy E. Miffleton protested in vain, finally paid a $12.50 fine for kissing his wife in public...
Family Affair. In Lexington, Ky., Hubert Atchley and James Dawson hired the same lawyer to separate them from their wife, bigamous Beulah Atchley-Dawson...
...Notaplace, get it?" he chuckled to his wife Eva-though with a sinking heart, because he knew that poor Eva, whose life depended on a well-ordered battery of labor-saving devices, was probably not going to relish the simple life of Utopia one bit. Only what she and Joe took to be the advancing shadow of World War III had scared her into agreeing to pull up her bourgeois roots and join him in the new colony being formed on a New England mountaintop...
...only more-or-less average Americans in Mary McCarthy's satirical fantasy about a bunch of highbrows who decide that it is time for people like themselves to hit it for the grass roots. This is not the first time that sprightly Author McCarthy, onetime wife of Critic Edmund Wilson and former drama critic of the fiercely intellectual Partisan Review, has peppered the left wing with birdshot. In The Company She Keeps (TIME, June 1, 1942), she made a novel of sorts out of a series of lively, only-too-lifelike portraits of Manhattan intellectuals. Her new book...
Bench & Bar. In Dallas, Justice of the Peace William E. Richburg sentenced Wife-Beater Grady Rogers to attend church with his wife for four Sundays. In San Francisco, after Stanley John Ostram had been arrested for doing 80 on the Bay Bridge, Judge Matthew Brady suspended his license, ordered him to drive across at 45 once each month for a year...