Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When someone asked the general's lady *if she wanted to be a President's wife, she replied frankly: "What American woman wouldn't want her husband to be President?" The Savannah (Go.) Morning News went her one better, proposed a national conservative coalition ticket with Eisenhower as presidential candidate and Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape...
...perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...
...Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress, testified that she had met Alger Hiss in the summer or fall of 1935 at the home of one Noel Field, whom she identified as a Communist member of the State Department...
...that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...
Concentrators in the Romance Languages naturally form a large percentage of the membership of these clubs, but membership is by no means limited to undergraduates. One of the Widener doormen happened to have lived in Brazil for a while and now he and his wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them...