Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edited for several years the Soviet Army's propaganda magazine Red Star. Kicked out of the Ministry of Education, last week, to make room for General Bubnov, was high-strung, sensitive, super-cultured Anatole Lunacharsky. He encouraged esthetic dancing, once directed an educational motion picture in which his wife was instructively seduced. A good many unesthetic people predict that Bubnov will not do worse...
...boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable jealousy...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
...back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John Amadio against her husband-flutist. Soprano Austral is now the second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife. I was unhappy and without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved...
Such is the general tenor of conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...