Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador, especially to France, he would be most fortunate in his wife. His first wife, Lady Lee Phillips of Memphis, died in 1915. Six years ago, aged 48, he married Miss Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, some 20 years his junior, beauteous daughter of a rich and celebrated ship-building family of Bath, Me. She has borne him four children (the fourth arrived last month [TIME, May 6]). There are few things which the French admire more than Beauty, Motherhood, Wealth...
...hospitals, janitors and washerwomen were pressed into service to help administer oxygen. One young interne started to give oxygen to a woman and discovered she was his wife. She died while he worked over her. Through the next day, persons who had escaped and many rescuers who had gone home, thinking themselves safe suddenly collapsed. They were taken to hospitals. Many of them died. Ben Jones, professional football player, only slightly gassed in the Clinic, drove home, 150 miles to Grove City, Pa., became ill 24 hours later and died...
...York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
Certainly Publisher Macfadden understands his People and its desires. He gives himself freely to it. The People wants pictures, and many a picture of Publisher Macfadden it has seen. The people wants human interest stories and many a story it has read about Publisher Macfadden, his wife and their many lusty offspring. The Macfadden publications are not ahead of the People or behind the People; they are of the People...
...right eye from an early accident, he used, in the 1820's, to wear his hair long, and tied into a short pigtail. Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat. He left his fortune to charity and to his college. His beautiful insane wife died before...