Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary...
Died. Countess Santa Eulalia, 71, of Philadelphia, Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
...Booth Tarkington, wife of the novelist, was hospitalized last week in Indianapolis. Cause: celluloid combs in her hair had caught fire...
...daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom. Girls and bride dance to ancient folk-song-the whole company becomes increasingly intoxicated. All dance a ronde and sing, while a man and his wife from among the guests enter the bed to warm it with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food. The whole company lead the bride and groom near to the bed in preparation. Bride takes off shoes of groom (symbol of submission), guests bring seven sheaves...
...Katheryn Howard, young, "very small and well-rounded with a delightful open expression." She had had lovers before, took another. Off came her head. Facing the block, she said: "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper." She had stabbed Henry's pride. He was getting fat, middleaged. Laws were passed to make it praiseworthy to tattle on a naughty queen, to make it fatal for a royal-bride-to-be to hornswoggle the king as to her virtue...