Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story the King could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...
Author of these plays, written for radio and church performance, and acted last week on the platform in a church in Boulder, Colo., was a masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it frowned on her preaching. She founded a society of her own. That was nearly 40 years ago. Her church became known as the Pillar of Fire. Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained...
Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring...
...Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...
Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...