Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...
...Dolan, New York Daily News reporter who had known Lieut. Lindbergh in his pre-hero days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according to Mr. Dolan,* smiled his "freakish, vaudeville smile," had "nothing...
Great is the jealousy, in some columnistic quarters, of the Winchell sources of information. Once, it is said, there hung a sign in the New York World office, warning all to tell Winchell nothing. But somehow, Winchell learns. Those interested to know who and his wife are expecting offspring find out in the Graphic's "Your Broadway and Mine" every Monday. When the offspring arrives, its sex is immediately disclosed. When Gossiper Winchell is flayed for a statement, he says "sorry" the next day-but only when serious consequences are threatened. Otherwise, he says nothing...
Webb, Sidney, erudite Secretary of State for the colonies and dominions. Long nosed, with pince-nez glasses and a pointed chin beard, Sidney Vebb is a noted author, one of Britain's greatest political economists. In these works his partner is his no-less intellectual wife, Beatrice Potter Webb...
...late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such...