Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene seemed symbolic of Western man's hasty and confused exodus from China. But not all Westerners left. Many decided to stick it out with their Chinese friends. Said the wife of a U.S. businessman who stayed: "I feel like a cross between Florence Nightingale and a damn fool, but I'm staying...
...Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which the White House stands...
Next day the producer's wife, a shrewd judge of publicity and an amateur spiritualist, packed Erica and the jacket off to a professional medium. Big, bosomy Medium Jane Harley quivered when she touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...
...stainless service at sea, Captain Douglas R. V. Lee was given command of the $12 million Royal Mail liner Magdalena. A silent, broad-shouldered man of 59, Captain Lee planned to make two voyages in his spanking new 17,500-ton ship, then retire. After that, said his wife: "My business will be him, and his business...
Samuel Goldwyn, after a successful prostate operation, checked out of Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion, where he had quietly observed his 24th wedding anniversary, with wife Frances and a bottle of Madeira, smuggled past the doctors...