Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
Like Paris surrounded by the beauties, Vice President Curtis last week decided what lady should sit second highest at the state dinner for Prime Minister MacDonald at the White House on Monday night. He decided for Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, and against his sister-hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann...
When the patriarch Abraham was 99 years old the Lord told him that his wife, Sarah, would be the mother of nations and of kings of people. Hearing this, the patriarch fell upon his face, roared in laughter shouting: "Shall a child be born to him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear...
...When Joseph was 17 he was brought from Canaan into Egypt, sold to Potiphar, a captain of the guard. In the house of Potiphar he was well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
...Youth Wife-slayer sleeps quietly"..."Bachelor Heir dies in bathtub"..."Smith girls are sorry for Elis"...Tipsy rooster leads the way to boss's still...