Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the story the Bible tells with artistic realism. Carefully the National Sunday School Union substituted "tempted him to do evil" rather than give the exact words of the wife of Potiphar. Question: Does the substitution help...
Actress Helen Hayes, wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur, lately withdrew from the play Coquette, then on the road, saying: "I am going to have a baby" (TIME, Sept. 16). Producer Jed Harris ordered the play closed without notice. Five members of the cast at once demanded extra salary, said that Mr. Harris had violated the rules of Actors' Equity Association...
Strange and condoned has been the existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with...
...visitor fished a checkbook out of his pocket, wrote out a check, passed it to President Lowell. The President looked in bewilderment at the signature: "Edward S. Harkness." Harkness? Harkness? "Why, thank you. . . . Ah, could you lunch with me?" he finally asked. "I'm very sorry, but my wife is shopping in Boston and I have promised to meet her. Good morning. . . . By the way, if the plan costs more, let me know how much." The unobtrusive man nodded pleasantly and went out. Months later, the "how much" proved to be $10,000,000 which ultimately Yaleman Harkness gave...
...gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof...