Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This was amply verified in the case of Labor Leader Claudio Bruzon, a political prisoner, whose arm was found inside a shark caught in the waters of Havana Harbor, and fully identified by his wife and friends. The only measure adopted by President Machado's government was to forbid, as shown in the front page of the newspaper El Pais for March 15, 1928, the further fishing of man-eating sharks in the Bay of Havana...
...seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled punches in a fight; a fellow knocked into water coming up in dry clothes) Director Asquith gets across the savagery of city railroads...
...Anthony Asquith is the son of the late great Earl of Oxford and Asquith by his second wife, Margot Asquith. He has one sister, Princess Bibesco...
...playwright's Katerina is a wife unjustly suspected at the start. Her husband attempts to kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much...
...evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...