Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portia Faces Life. In St. Louis, Mrs. Lillian A. Shenker, serving her first day as provisional judge in City Court, explained why she had fined a man $50 for beating his wife but had dismissed the case of another man charged with cuffing his girl friend: "The wife . . . has to live with [her husband] and can't escape . . . but the other man had beaten his girl before and experience should have taught her what to expect...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
Penney chose his partners carefully, paying as much attention to the wife as to the man ("a good woman's power to encourage is well nigh unlimited"). Once he found the right partner, he gave him a share of any profits and trusted him completely. By 1924 he was calling himself "the man with a thousand partners." Penney's 50,000 "associates" (employees) still share in the profits after a year's service...
...message. Escapism, it preaches-some 90 million U.S. moviegoers notwithstanding - does not pay. To prove its point it describes the case of a middle-aged Boston judge (Alexander Knox) who decides one day to "run for his life." Behind him he leaves the responsibilities of his office, a selfish wife and daughter, and the threat of stomach ulcers...
Hearth & Home. In Manhattan, Mrs. Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...