Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President delighted his Republican audience with some joshing remarks about Mamie. "After the 1952 campaign, one of the expert political analysts told my wife, I thought very unwisely, that she was responsible for 74 electoral votes. I have never before admitted to her that I thought that was an underestimate. Now in 1956, a man came in with what was obviously a rather preposterous proposal. Finally she said to me, 'If you do that, I'll take my 74 electoral votes and walk...
Woman Obsessed (20th Century-Fox). "You'll never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose...
Twice divorced (most recently from Singer Marion Hutton), Humorist Douglas, 50, who opens this week as one-man funnyman in a nightclub act, has a ready answer to questions about who his next wife will be. "Princess Margaret, of course," cracks Douglas, but his previous choices are on his mind too. He has netted more than $10,000 in the two months since his book was published and moans: "I can see the ex-wives closing in now." Says Jack Paar: "I think it would be fair to say that Mr. Douglas does all his writing under the influence...
...George Links who is bored with his marriage. To get away to London one night a week, he pretends to be in psychoanalysis; actually, he rents an attic room in the home of England's most famous literary evangelist and quickly manages to seduce the evangelist's wife. After that, the book turns into an old-fashioned game of musical beds: George's wife, learning of the affair, permits herself to be seduced by his oldest friend; the friend's mistress comforts herself by propositioning George. The only perceptible effect of this frenetic activity is that...
...they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives ask the storekeeper to sell no more rum on credit...