Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator John Henry Eaton. Because there was a frightful flutter of gossip hovering over the pair, President-elect Jackson urged Eaton to "go marry her at once and shut their mouths." After Jackson appointed Eaton his Secretary of War, the gossip only worsened, and capital society, led by the wife of Vice President John Calhoun, barred Peggy from Washington's drawing rooms. Calhoun and Jackson bitterly split, and the ensuing political brawl finally destroyed Calhoun's presidential hopes, paved the way to the White House for still another of Peggy's great and good friends: Martin...
...Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care of my wife." The trooper looked down at Barbara Ann, dead on the ground. Said he softly: "She's in good hands...
...Argentina, intent on curing its economic ills, needs to cut beef consumption and restore it to its historic role as a foreign-exchange earner. One day Amalia Ferrer, wife of an insurance-company employee, said to her butcher: "Carlos, two kilos of beefsteak." Carlos cut the thick slices, said: "Seventysix pesos [the equivalent of 19? a pound]." Señora Ferrer protested: "But Don Carlos, only last Friday I paid 60." Sighed the butcher: "That was Friday. Today this is the price; soon it will be more." The housewife settled for stew beef...
...apparently reckons that his lawyers' maneuverings will win him at least two more years in his beach house. The onetime dictator described a pleasant exile: swimming, archery, rowing, a few games now and then of dominoes and boccie (Italian bowling), even a foray to Manhattan with wife and daughter to see My Fair Lady...
What did Evangelist Billy Graham and Wife Ruth observe on their afternoon stroll through the parks of London? Britain's newsmen grew more curious as Graham tossed out hints like purple confetti. Said he: "I have traveled all over the world and never seen anything like it!" Pressed for specifics, he allowed: "The parks looked as if they had been turned into a bedroom." Still an ambiguous witness, he served up some advice for all young folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down...