Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelts marry young. Though Franklin Roosevelt was barely 23 when he took to wife Eleanor Roosevelt, 20, his offspring have married younger: Anna at 20, Elliott at 21, Franklin Jr., John and James...
...Ameddican"-born wife having consistently put her foot in her mouth* (TIME, May 22), the moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. last week decided to take matters in his own large hands At the suggestion of easygoing, democratic bir Willmott Lewis, correspondent of the London Times, he did something he hadn't previously found necessary in his 62 years: called a press conference...
...Ambassador made a date for another press conference. Next day those few bigwig reporters who had been invited to the garden party also received bids for their wives, just like other people. At one stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor, brilliant, erratic Lord Lothian, who used to be Prime Minister Lloyd George's Private Secretary Philip Henry Kerr, will have to live up to when he comes to take over the Embassy this summer...
...Communists were produced by the Dies Committee. They apparently existed only in the vast credulousness of some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize something called American Nationalists, Inc., which he endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George...
...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...