Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists objected in Parliament to giving the prince an annual allowance of $70,000. Ex-King Leopold's brother Charles, who served as regent during the war and openly opposed Leopold's return to the throne, flatly refused to attend the wedding. Leopold's unpopular morganatic wife, the handsome Princess Liliane, having been shunted from a lead car to a back car and then to a lead car again, seemed about to suffer from "diplomatic illness" on the big day, but was finally content with limousine No. 4 and ex-King Umberto of Italy as her companion...
...cheering streets to the five-century-old St. Gu dule Church. There a shaky but beautiful bride, alternating between stifled giggles and sobs, and a grim, nervous but handsome groom in a resplendent new uniform of a naval commander, heard themselves for the second time pronounced man and wife. "Italy," said the gallant old (85) Cardinal van Roey to the new Princess of Liege, "sends you to Belgium as a ray of its beautiful sun and a reflection of its ardent soul." And outside, the people roared: "Paola! Paola! Paola...
...having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided to put out one of her own, used foolscap and duplicating machines to publish the Chulmleigh Chimes. In such villages as Honiton and Devizes, town criers polished their bells, walked the streets belting out the news...
...market keeps climbing. At Sotheby's in London last week, the scramble was for 29 French impressionist and postimpressionist works put up for auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum...
...plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports her account of the rape. But the medical examiner finds no physical evidence that the woman was violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender...