Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took just two hours for the truth to leak out. Some one simply had to tell that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...
...ride the next day the woman asked "Jack" if he had ever thought of getting married. He had not. She said she would marry him. He did not want a wife, he said. She insisted he ought to have one. His inability to say "no" again overpowered him. They drove to Coffeyville, Kan., and were married...
...smudging his thumb in ink and across the documents. One of the men (Barnett guessed they were lawyers) later told him that he had given to the American Baptist Home Mission Society $550,000 of his royalty oil account, and a like amount to his wife...
...Barnett took her Indian to Holly-wood and they moved into a $50,000 home, as fine as any movie actor's. They lived happily enough, except that the heat some-times bothered the old man and he occasionally pined for his Henryetta neighbors. His wife gave him petty cash to spend...
...station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...