Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth Bingham, onetime ambassador to Great...
...rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick of the oil lamp that furnished the only light...
Peacefully Chatting. But on Easter Sunday-a brooding day in which fog and bituminous smoke pressed down on Clover Fork, Yokum, Catron's Creek and all the hills and hollers-history caught up with Ambrose Metcalfe. He drove into the shabby settlement of Lejunior with his wife and baby, stopped and climbed out, belligerently intent on investigating a parked automobile in which he had seen a bootlegger named Ford Sizemore and a café operator, Art Jackson...
...Rogers. The last time Fred and Ginger whirled across the screen together (The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939), they were impersonating the famed ballroom dance team of the pre-World War I era. In The Bar-kleys, despite a thin veneer of fiction which makes them husband & wife, they are impersonating the world-famous cinema dance team of the '30s: Astaire & Rogers...
Just when Lund thinks that his wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...