Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle last week, a ruddy, paunchy little man quietly celebrated his Sard birthday. Then he went to Victoria, B. C. to visit for a week his 50-year-old wife, his youngest sons, schoolboys of 12 and 14. There this week Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, oldest active bishop in the Anglican communion and one of the great missionaries of his time, celebrates the 44th anniversary of his consecration as Missionary Bishop of Alaska...
...concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...
...accent) has a chance to act in mufti for a change, instead of doing one of those great impersonations (Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) in which he is aided by overmetic-ulous makeup and fussy mimicry. The doctor spends most of his spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging their high-strung son into a nerve clinic. When the wife agrees to employ an Austrian dancer-patient of the doctor's (Jane Bryan, with a phony Viennese accent) as the boy's companion, all their troubles seem about over...
...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...
...came in time to resemble second-hand book stores. In the first two years alone Carl Sandburg went through more than a thousand source books and marked them for copyists, of whom he had two at a time working downstairs in the glassed-in porch. His pretty, white-haired wife, Paula, and three daughters helped with the files. Gutted and exhausted books went to the barn...