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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unity was founded 50 years ago in Kansas City by a wife and husband, down on their luck, named Myrtle and Charles Fillmore. Suffering from tuberculosis Mrs. Fillmore suddenly came to believe that there was a supreme power which could conquer all "negative or destructive agencies." She cured herself of her ailment and Mr. Fillmore got over a diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Friend | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Butlers' O. K. | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Died. Gladys Munn Pulitzer, 45, wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer's youngest son, former New York World Publisher Herbert Pulitzer; of tuberculosis; at La Jolla, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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