Word: wife
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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HERE lies my wife. If she'd lived till next Friday she'd have been dead shust three weeks...
...PROFESSOR in the Cornell University (a graduate of Harvard) is going abroad, in an official position, accompanied by his wife, in December. Any gentleman who would like to intrust a son to such care, for study and travel, will please address, "Professor," Drawer 29, Ithaca, N. Y. References: Hon. J. M. Francis, Minister to Greece, Professors Peabody and Gurney, Cambridge, Mass., President A. D. White, Cornell University, Professor A. L. Wheeler, Yale College, Professor H. L. Eddy, Princeton...
...story is told of Thomas Nast, that when he was at the height of his celebrity in New York last fall, a Western lady sent him a marriage proposal. He sent back a cartoon of a lady with two or three children, with this inscription, "My wife and children, the only objections...
...bestowed compel us to believe that it is deserved. A short time after leaving Oxford, where he distinguished himself both as a scholar and as an athlete, George Hughes established himself in London, intending to follow the law; but he was soon compelled, principally by the illness of his wife's mother, to relinquish his profession. After living in Italy for some time, he returned to England, and took up his residence for life on his country estate. It is this part of his life, perhaps, which is most interesting, for we have here presented to us a character supposed...
...conventional enough, even for a poet. But worse than all, he spoke condescendingly of Tennyson, and the great British breast swelled with indignation that the poet laureate should be patronized by a wandering American. Moreover, it was reported that he had left in the far West a much-abused wife, and that she, poor lady, was about to take the lecture-stand in order to gain an honest livelihood by proclaiming to the world the crimes and cruelties of her husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present...