Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnesota. Henry Virkula lived in Big Falls, ran a candy store. He had a wife, two children, a car. One day last fortnight he drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
...about the same time Mr. Insull acquired large holdings in Western United. He said: "I have no securities whatever in public utilities. There is not a dollar of utility money invested in my newspapers." He did say he still holds 12.500 shares of Western United in trust for his wife, his sister and one W. W. Tracy of Springfield...
...Cuba. Hearst-thinker Arthur Brisbane commented, of course, on the contest. The traditional Brisbanality at such a juncture would have been to the effect that the noblest thing Miss Universe could now do would be to go home and marry some good man and be a good wife and exercise woman's richest function, Motherhood. Instead, Mr. Brisbane Brisbantered...
...title. This part of the picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton...
...ever so vaguely reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Even as Wilde's Algernon Moncrieff invented his mythical friend Bunbury for a social convenience, so Playwright Test Dalton's stockmarketeer invents an opulent "Uncle John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...