Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instinctively dramatic, he carefully gauges every public act, can still make even his wife cry with his play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes...
...whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely for background. So superbly is she unobtrusive, so definitely part of the picture, that one forgets she is the same Lynn Fontanne who was the charming mistress in "Caprice", the flower girl in "Pygmalion", the artist's wife in "The Doctor's Dilemma", and Raina in "Arms...
...order to prepare the way for the filming of the people, it was decided to have Captain Hilton-Simpson and his wife precede Haeseler and acquaint, with the new camera, the friends which the explorers had made on previous contacts with the natives. Up to this time the Berbers had only seen the ordinary still camera and no movies had ever been taken of them...
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...local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy cousin, is mildly lionized by literary society, has a succés d'estime with his first novel. His wife dies. Author and reader leave him desolate, planning to return once again to his native Middle West; but he will go on writing; his day will come...