Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Yacht Club. In technical qualification for his post he operates one of the largest dry docks in the South; he is a civil and mechanical engineer, a naval architect. He directs large Louisiana banks, is a member of the International Olympic Games Committee. Mr. Jahncke's wife is a granddaughter of Edward M. Stanton, the Lincoln Secretary...
Said the Butler report: "However reprehensible it may be for this woman to marry the Indian for mercenary purposes and to procure the assistance of lawyers to aid her in becoming possessed of his property as his wife, it is not a crime nor is her procurement of assistance a conspiracy to commit a crime...
...Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok, Siam...
...eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions. The immobile circumstances of fate must yield to feminine efficiency and cunning. In this age of uncertainty, the well insured man is wisely given preferment in the stead of the healthy athlete. After all, the Akron girl knows a good wife must be a good provider...
...force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This is a one-act play with a single character-an embittered wife up to her ears in woe. It is one of Mr. O'Neill's earlier works and has all of his early melancholy weight. The cast, Mary Blair, did very well...