Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Feb. 23), had been crowded by hospital routine. "You never have a minute," he grumbled to his State Department aide, Joseph Greene Jr. Dulles made no attempt to call Acting Secretary Christian Herter or to mix in State business. He took pleasure in afternoon and evening visits from wife Janet, in a unanimous Senate resolution praying for recovery of "beloved John Foster Dulles," in a phenomenal outpouring of 8,000 letters, telegrams and get-well cards...
...Cervantes, who was supposed to have written Don Quixote while in jail. Now we have an idea of what he was jugged for. The play presents several couples who appeal to the judge for divorces, and do not get them. Then somebody else comes in and complains about his wife, while nobody (either onstage or in the audience) listens. Then two musicians sing a song, and that's all. At the end, none of the characters is any better off than before, and neither is the audience...
...captivating little lady with a face like a Leonardo drawing, Mrs. Walter B. Cannon is a very extraordinary person whom Harvard could proudly name its matriarch. She has been attached to the community for eighty-two years, as daughter of a Harvard alumnus, Radcliffe undergraduate, wife of a medical school professor, mother of five talented children (three daughters graduated from Radcliffe, one son from Harvard and Medical School), mother-in-law of Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Fairbank, grandmother of two Harvard freshmen, great-grandmother-to-be of a potential Harvard or Radcliffe student...
...idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock...
Arnold Rothstein was a dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...