Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure & simple Lindbergh when, with his wife and Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, he repaired to the Carlton Hotel suite in Washington where MBS, NBC and CBS had set up their microphones. He greeted all the announcers and technicians, with his mechanic's eye pried into the electrical arrangements, wanted particularly to know whether telephones would be ringing during the broadcast...
...world, peace in the U. S., and suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen! The Wind, North to the Orient), smoothed out the draft, typed the finished version, left on it the hallmark of her husband's direct simplicity...
...slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana. All were charged with "selling" to the university $75,000 worth of furnishings which came from a hotel which the State had already bought, and pocketing the proceeds. Oetje John...
...awful night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...
Shopkeepers were worried but courageous. A typical window sign in a St. Paneras grocery: "Called up, wife carries on." One West End druggist put a sign in his window: "Bismuth as usual during altercations...