Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York's first Congresswoman. The fact that Mr. Hilles, out of political step with the Hoover Administration, had been without influence in choosing his political "wife," prompted Frank Richardson Kent, the Baltimore Sun's all-wise political observer, to comment...
...parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night will have trouble making out who is the hero and who is the villain and this difficulty will not please them. Most expected shot: H. B. Warner deciding to quash...
...into his limousine he rode away, whistling pensively. Later, when the whole British press had begun to roar unanimous approval, the little lame Yorkshireman said: "If England is pleased, so am I. I set myself a task and it was not an easy one. Without the help of my wife I could never have achieved...
...pains, Editor Older became an unpopular figure. San Franciscans admired Patrick Calhoun, respected Mayor Schmitz. Editor Older was dropped from his clubs. His friends ostracized him. He lived in seclusion with his wife, ate his meals at a seaside "dog wagon," for exercise swam off a lonely beach. Once he was saved from gunmen only through the diligence of private detectives. Another time his home was almost bombed. Once he was kidnaped, taken by train to another city, saved by an unknown friend who wired ahead to authorities. "That story," boasts Editor Older, "went around the world...
...familiar sight," gurgled Lady Drummond Hay through her typewriter. Next were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four bathtubs. . . . Please let me hustle along to that warm bath...