Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nominee spoke briefly to reporters outside the residence of Roman Catholic Cardinal John Krol, where he attended a private Mass with his wife, Barbara, and grandson George P. Bush...
...this play has been put on this year--a Div School group did it last spring. Cocktail Party is one of those rather nasty comedies of manners that are the ancestors of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? T.S. Eliot translates his marital problems and his wife's mental instability into theater...
Sometimes Bush's speech has a chameleon quality. One day during a tour through central Illinois farmland, Bush and his wife Barbara rode in a bus with the country singers Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue, all sisters. At a stop in the town of Wenona, Bush told the crowd that the three sisters had been giving a country concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing...
...named Frederick Exley sits on the balcony outside his room in a Honolulu hotel, sipping vodka and heating up steaks on a portable grill. It is his wedding night, and he and his bride have just had their first tiff as husband and wife. Eventually, she stops sulking and joins him. "Dropping to her knees," Exley writes, "she grasped my bare thighs and begged me to please, please, please remove the grilling fork from my chest." Exley, in other words, is up to the same trick he demonstrated in A Fan's Notes (1968) and Pages from a Cold Island...
...expensive clothing given as a gift to Mrs. Reagan must be listed on annual financial disclosure forms required of federal officials under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. President Reagan would be required to list any such gifts to his wife. Their value may also have to be reported on federal income tax returns. Furthermore, White House lawyers agreed in 1982 that any of the First Lady's dresses that she considered loans, not gifts, would be reported annually under the ethics law. Neither the disclosure forms nor the Reagan tax returns for the years 1982 through 1987 list loans...