Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
Doughtiest of Soviet commanders in the actual front-line sector, likeliest to start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
...Milton G. Marx, wife of the dress-manufacturing fifth brother of the four famed Marx brothers (Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico), brought suit against the parents of her first husband, the late R. Russell von Tilzer, for custody of the child she bore him. now aged 19 months...
Newsman Spaeth: How long will you and your wife be in town...