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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Cobb | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Film Painter | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Potter d'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family; by his third wife, Pauline, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: habitual intemperance and cruelty. Palmer's first two wives supposedly received divorce settlements totalling about $5,000,000, but the third Mrs. Palmer received only $250 a month alimony and counsels' fees ($10,000). Few days after his divorce, Potter Palmer married Pluma Louise Lowery Abatiello, 23, roadhouse waitress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...maneuvers of his 90-piece marching band. Most of all they liked the latest Marshall innovation: a rah-rah song, Hail to the Redskins, with music by Barnee Breeskin, band leader at the swank Shoreham Hotel, and words by one-time Cinemactress Corinne Griffith (Declasse, The Lady in Ermine), wife of Big Chief Marshall. The nine other owners of big-league professional teams, well aware that the Redskins have attracted the largest crowds (440,000 in 13 games) this season, are considering rah-rah songs for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Powwow | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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