Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight...
...quit his job, but in 1876 he decided to launch Diary, an all-Dostoevsky monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...
Family Circles. In Leeds, England, Robert Davies got a divorce after he charged that his wife pulled the bath mat from under his feet while he was shaving. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Calogera Cassaro, suing for divorce after 64 years of marriage, charged that although her 86-year-old husband is ablebodied, lately he has been living "in idleness, profligacy and dissipation...
Edelman said that he and his wife "became quite interested in finding out what the Communist Party was talking about' 'while they were living in Indianapolis in 1943. "All told, we attended about two party meetings and had the Daily Worker sent to us," he said...