Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife and I were the last persons at Culter to see him on Sunday night, April 5, when he simply disappeared. We are sorry to hear that he is such a rascal. He is extremely likable and pleasant, and certainly brilliant, generous to a fault. His worst faults seemed to be a tendency to laziness and a drive to succeed at all costs. No one dreamed that he was a fraud...
...four thorough explorations of European painting, sculpture and architecture, quests that uncovered many works of genius not listed in the tourist guides. In Spain last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission to reproduce the picture, flew Photographer Eric Schaal from Switzerland to make the copy for this week's Art story...
Back on May 3, while seated at the kitchen table, having a midnight snack, I took out my wallet, gave my wife her allowance and noted that I had $50 remaining therein. Came the dawn, and on getting dressed, I was missing one wallet. In a cold sweat my wife and I searched the house; for two solid weeks we searched the house, with no luck. I bought a new wallet, went through all the red tape of new operator's licenses, pass cards...
...money is channeled to us through uneconomical agencies that keep highly paid foreign employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling the people...
...such parentheses as this. After this momentous event Shaw slept around casually and childlessly for several years, until in his middle forties he married a "green-eyed Irish millionairess" after she had nursed him through a serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste and childless, for the rest of their days--in spite, presumably, of the demands of the Life Force that they do their bit towards breeding the race. As the Devil in the dream scene...