Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...
...dreams he began having which "seemed to tell me, 'If you love Jerry ... let him slip away peacefully in his sleep . . . and he won't be tormented and looked at and yelled at and tortured by doctors." After one fitful, dream-racked night, Greenfield sent his wife to the shop, did the deed...
After four hours' deliberation, the jury acquitted Louis Greenfield. He and his wife talked of adopting another son, apparently unaware that adoption agencies might refuse to permit...
Last week Max Hecksher and his wife arrived in Milwaukee. On the way, they had found a job in London for 17-year-old Helmut. Herr Hecksher, unbroken at 60, had just $2 in his pocket when at last he saw Rose's beaming face upon the station platform. Said he, safe in a furnished room which Rose provided...
...Nearing Rio de Janeiro from the North on the U. S. light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...