Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, Eleanor Roosevelt pointed out at her White House Press conference last week, goes for a President and his wife as well as for other folks. To women reporters curious over the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt's newspaper column, My Day, has a way of beating the President to the punch, this toasty retort was explanation enough. To others concerned over her increasing truculence along the Neutrality Front and its influence on U. S. women hell-bent for peace, it explained more fully why Eleanor Roosevelt, who four years ago said, "The war idea is obsolete," had last fortnight...
...Paul last week Mrs. Frank Kellogg, relict of Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ambassador to Great Britain, talked like a loyal wife. Referring to her husband's belief that "the world had at last reached a stage of civilized thought which ... abhorred armed conflict," she asked: "How can it be otherwise than that enduring peace will at last-and shortly-triumph...
Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...
...they decided on a swap: for George's wife and daughters, George could have Clarence's wife, seven of the June children, and the cow. Their wives agreed, and the swap was made. They lived that way with less boredom, for three months...
...writing novels. S. N. Behrman, in his latest play, "No Time For Comedy", has gone the young men of Greenwich Village one better. He is a young man, or at least a middle-aged man, who has written a play about a young man writing a play about the wife of a young man writing a play. The total effect, leading up to a grand climax in the last act, leaves the audience a bit at sea about what playwright is writing which play about whom...