Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proud citizens of The Bronx offered gifts of food, clothing, scales, cribs and even a house after 27-year-old Mrs. Ethel Collins, wife of a $72-a-week statistician, gave birth to quadruplets (two boys, two girls) at New York's Lebanon Hospital...
Munch appreciates art for what it is, not for its monetary value. He is by nature completely unmaterialistic, although it has been pointed out that a men with a millionaire wife has no real need for being materialistic. But in this case, the spirit is not superficial. He has one abiding interest in life--music. That is why he is so impatient with musicians who discuss with him the positions he might get. That is why recently, when he heard indirectly that an orchestra he was guest conducting was in financial peril, he returned his salary. These are superficial examples...
When you play football you do not ask of your teammate if he beats his wife. The attitude of the United States is, above all, a practical attitude. The value of allies is directly proportional to their strength; obviously one would not disarm one's allies...
...Hollywood, Mrs. Catharine Gretchen Lombardo, suing for divorce, charged that her husband spent hours teaching their four-year-old daughter to shoot dice. In Newark, N.J., Mrs. Martha Giles got a divorce after testifying that her husband hit her with a live eel. In St. Louis, Mrs. Brigitte Fitzpatrick, wife of-a psychologist, won her divorce after testifying that her husband kept analyzing her in front of their friends...
Habit. In Amagansett, N.Y., Alan Vass. charged with burglary when police found 79 pairs of women's shoes (all sizes 5 to 6) in his attic and garage, was ready with his explanation: "My wife once said she liked that kind. I got started taking them and couldn't stop...