Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SmallTown Lawyer's Wife...
...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
...better was The Severed Cord by Maxine Finsterwald of Manhattan, presented by a troupe from Sunnyside, Long Island. Psychologically acute, it portrayed a "scab" (strike-breaker), hated and despised by both his son and wife. When the scab's life was threatened the son was vindictive, exultant. But the wife's conscience, dependence and desire to humiliate the living man, conspired to prevent her from allowing the wretch to meet his fate...
...recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified. He returned at last...
...specimen of the verse (Cavender with his wife's ghost...