Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piquant, such "political incompatibility" would plausibly explain why "Nito" prefers to play the Duce alone in Rome, only visiting his wife in Milan or at his farm in Forli twice or thrice a year...
...thee, therefore, Olaf, in the presence of God and this Christian assembly, wilt thou have Martha here present to be thy wedded wife...
...which has historic basis deals with the young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
...content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least it kept him near to the life of the sea and took care of his Manhattan houseful of wife and nondescript children...
...Mortimer Smokier, dentist, pulled and pulled at the teeth of Mrs. Molly Blumlein. In 17 pulls he got 17 teeth, but none the right one. Now Dentist Smokier, by court decision, must pay $16,000 to Mrs. Blumlein, and $3,000 to Husband Blumlein for interference with his wife's duties...