Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haircutting (neither of which interest me). Lest you think I am a degenerate let me say that I am married, have two children, am 32 years of age, an army veteran with Croix de Guerre, a poet of local fame at least, and a successful businessman. My wife has never had the slightest inkling of this peculiarity-for, fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection...
Married. Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks. 40, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and of James Evans Jr. of Pittsburgh; mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; and Jack Whiting, 28, of Philadelphia, leading man in the musicomedy Hold Everything; at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan...
Fifteen years ago last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week...
Died. Princess Alfred Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, (nee Catherine Britton) 37, of Vienna, wife of a onetime member of the Austro-Hungarian Diplomatic Corps in the U. S.; in Vienna...
...call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...