Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife went your anagramatic correspondent one better. Instead of scrambl A. HITLER to THE LIAR (TIME, April 10), she transposed it to HEIL...
...Meanwhile Chinese terrorism continued. In Shanghai, fortnight ago, the puppet secretary of the city's Japanese-controlled Police Bureau, Dr. Hsi Shih-tai, was assassinated as he walked in the street with his wife. This was the 17th political murder in Shanghai since January 1. In Tientsin the Chinese manager of the Japanese-owned Federal Reserve Bank was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. In Kaifeng, Chinese mercenary troops hired by the Japanese mutinied and murdered four puppet officials. All Japanese reports said: "Apparently something happened in Kaifeng...
...when Norway followed the suit of many another nation and asked restless Revolutionary Léon Trotsky to leave its shores, Mexico's famed Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to Mexico. Muralist Rivera's young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto...
Sued for Divorce. Gladys Dubois Armstrong, Hollywood song writer; by Robert Armstrong, 42, cinema tough-guy; in Hollywood. Grounds: mental cruelty and his wife's insistence that they live in Mexico...
Readers' first question about They Still Say No will be: How does it compare with the early novels of Sinclair Lewis (the author's father)? Sinclair Lewis' only child by his first wife, Wells Lewis, 21, a senior at Harvard, is a slender, sandy-haired, better-looking but less vigorous, less radical edition of his father...