Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day the Black Eagle reappeared with ruffled plumage. This time he was not gloriously alone: he was accompanied by his wife, Essie, orchids on her shoulder. To an attentive courtroom, which included 50 Divine angels, the colonel related how 15 other angels had come to him the night before, asked him to settle alleged claims against Father Divine. It would take "about $50,000," he dismally explained. "My conscience would not allow me to pay one claim unless I paid them all." With a giveaway glance at Essie: "My family wouldn't even consider that...
...affections-a blond Bavarian girl named Eva Helen Braun-moved into Hitler's official residence in Berlin, the great Chancellery on Wilhelmstrasse. There she occupies the honored position of typical German Hausfrau in the Hitler menage, and there she conducts herself as if she were the wife of the Nazi dictator...
...Hitler has really sacrificed himself to a great cause. He has made lots of people feel good. Think of the poor average American leading his mechanical, time-clock existence with his fat wife and his four-room duplex. Before Hitler the only things he had to look forward to were getting drunk on Saturday night and Roosevelt's fireside chats. Even movies held no charm for him. Imagine seeing a picture with Paulette Goddard in it, while sitting next to a hefty wife! Now he can guess philosophically about how long it will be before...
...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...
...SMILER WITH THE KNIFE-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Perilous adventures befall the wife of a private investigator when she agrees to help the British secret service smash a Fascist conspiracy. To an exciting story pseudonymous Author Blake (English Poet Cecil Day-Lewis) adds the fillip of exceptionally good writing...