Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picky Pie had worked in the chalk mines, but mostly he bootlegged liquor. He had been arrested several times before, once for shooting at a white boy just to make him jump. They snorted at the reports that he supported his crippled father and three sisters besides his wife and three children...
...Flemings of the North were generally for Leopold. Leopold's darkly luscious second wife, Mary Liliane Baels (age 36), whom he married in the grim summer of 1941, is a Fleming. She was once known as &qout;The Shrimp Queen," because her father had made a lot of money in shrimp. In Northern villages, alongside pictures of Leopold inscribed "We await our King's return," there were on display posters of bosomy Mary Liliane in a low-cut evening dress, bending over a banquet table strewn with blossoms. The caption said simply: "Fruits and Flowers...
...much mail is pouring in from eager baldheads abroad that van Rooijen's wife has started a stamp collection. The barber already has seven girls helping him in the shop at Een. Later this month he plans to branch out; his son will open a ten-chair shop in Amsterdam...
...David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today. The Yemenites are Israel's poorest citizens (mostly farmhands, shoeshine boys, etc.) ; only 1% of them can afford more than one wife...
Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...