Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic commotion for or against it is probably that most of the book is based on ethic rather than fact. A few not-so-original remedies are suggested for a few situations. A situation: from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution of the Present...
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...phrase was "dew wife." It came to light in Manhattan's Chinatown, in a subtle feud between two newspapers, the Chinese Nationalist Daily News and the Chinese Journal. The feud was aggravated some months ago when the Nationalist flayed the Journal for publishing advertisements of Japanese goods. The Journal, edited by Communist Thomas P. Chan, replied by flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred...
...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
Cross-Country Refueling. "I am tired now, Art is tired, we haven't shaved since we left Spokane, our clothes are soiled and greasy, our ears are humming, so I guess we'll go home. My wife and my baby Patricia are waiting for me, and Art's mother is waiting for him." So read Lieut, Nick B. Mamer's report to North American Newspaper Alliance of the 115-hour cross-country refueling flight which he and Pilot Art Walker made last fortnight in the Buhl biplane Sun God (TIME...