Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glittering table like two horseshoes laid end to end was spread in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan-American Union Building. Mr. Gann found his seat seventh from the foot of one horseshoe. On his left was Mrs. William Braden, wife of the Chilean copper operator. On his right was a Mrs. Paul Wooton, wife of the Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph of her and her brother...
...Gann listened to the conversation around him and held his peace. This was his wife's big evening. He saw it through...
...Orleans, Stevedore Vito Longo, 55, taxied to an undertaking shop, had himself fitted for a high-priced coffin, paid for it, drove on to a cemetery to make sure the casket would neatly sink into a certain tomb, returned to the mortuary, stayed there. His wife and sons could not explain his suicide...
Whopper-publishers Simon & Schuster and Whopperess Lowell, replied cheerfully that she had used ''artistic selectivity." Husband Thompson Buchanan, a journalist-playwright with Hollywood affiliations, admitted that it was true that his wife had lived on the Minnie A. Caine only a short time, but protested that she had lived on many another ship and that in her book she had merged all the real ships into one literary entity, thus demonstrating her good judgment...