Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the convict when he set out by automobile for Tattnall State Prison were his wife, his mother and two guards, one of whom the family had hired to watch him in the hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish...
...handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through with the marriage, her transgression with the foreman. It is a triangle story solved by arithmetic, not geometry. The girl most wants a home, the old man a wife, the young man his freedom. So Playwright Howard, without cynicism, urges his bewildered people to be sensible, and quietly laughs melodrama and heroics off the stage...
...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...
...between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties, buzzing about, he has sat in both General Assembly and Senate of his State Legislature. For years he rode a motorcycle to the bank every day. Once it got away from him, ripped through his wife's pet flower bed. Evaded he: "Mildred, some damn fool has torn up your flower bed." Said she: "I know who the damn fool...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Jacqueline Cochran, wife of Tycoon Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.), broke her own record for the loo-kilometer airplane course, set a new mark of 286,418 m. p. h. In Manhattan, Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, ex-wife of Tycoon Odium, celebrated her fifth year as smart president of smart Bonwit Teller's store...