Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British reporters soon found that Scotland Yard was also investigating the disappearance of a wealthy retired official named Donald McSwan, his wife Amy and their son William, Dr. Archibald Henderson, well-to-do proprietor of a doll hospital, and his pretty young wife, Rose...
...garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward wife...
...Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind...
Ties That Bind. In Nowata, Okla., after passing out parking tickets to his brother, his wife and his brother-in-law, Police Chief Arthur Stooky concluded: "It's getting to the point where I've got to decide whether to leave my job or my family...
Prerogative. In Birmingham, England, Judge Richard Hill Norris, denying a divorce to a truck driver's wife, ruled that it was neither cruel nor uncommon for a man to strike his wife on the street on Saturday night...