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...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
...Emanuel Shinwell, wife of Britain's Minister of Fuel and Power, got a grip on her fag and cleaning rag and gave the world a great-man's-helpmeet-at-home picture that was really believable for a change...
...Helpmeet. In Chicago, when George Leenheer lay down on his couch, his wife considerately removed his shoes "to make him comfortable" before she shot...
...Clack has been president of the Randolph County Medical Society, is now a director of the Bank of Wadley, chairman of Southern Union College's board of trustees. In & around Wadley are more than 1,500 people born under the care of Dr. Clack and his seeing helpmeet...
...Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such...