Word: husbanding
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...Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
...their early days in Manhattan slums. After a short time spent happily in Europe where "soul is soul regardless of skin," the pair will return to enact the second and final act in an apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite mad. He, finally despairing, but still adoring her, will...
Elmire, played by Miss Murray, was finely portrayed, one could feel her change of mood coming, and became nervous with her when her husband delayed, almost too long, in taking a hand in the game she is playing with the hypocrite...
...Vanderbilts, the senior. Her husband was Cornelius 3rd. Her son is Brigadier General Cornelius. Among other prominent accessions to the St. Thomas' parish under Dr. Stires was a Presbyterian, the late Miss Spence, famed schoolmistress...
...became known that one of Rector Parks' parishioners was attending services at Rector Stires' church. She had been for 50 years-ever since she taught Sunday School-a pillar of Rector Parks' church. She had given the church its magnificent Byzantine entrance, a memorial to her husband. She had endowed the church's hospital. She was-is-Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.* Whether Mrs. Vanderbilt will transfer her allegiance is a matter of conjecture. Rectors Parks and Stires are good friends, the former having ofttimes supported the latter for a bishopric, notably in the election which resulted...