Word: husbanding
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...Madame," said an apostle of red tape, "as your husband was not drowned in a shipwreck, you have a right to only one-quarter of his salary for a pension. It is unfortunate for you that he was not drowned, as then you would have got three-quarters...
...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...
...child was then passed to Bukharin, the so-called Archbishop of Communism. He took her tenderly but awkwardly. The mother made an instinctive step forward but her husband put out his arm to restrain her. This broke the tension and caused many a ripple of girlish giggles from the audience...
Ganna Walska McCormick: "In Chicago, Miss Elizabeth McCormick, second cousin of my husband, Harold F. McCormick, gave a dinner for the McCormick family. The newspapers reported that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick and I 'confronted each other in seats of honor.' Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick was escorted by Edward Krenn, Viennese architect. They later went to the Batik Ball...
...mention of her in standard reference works, and she never went into Society. She took no part in his public activities and never went to Court. It is said that when Lord Morley met her she was unable, under English law, to procure a divorce from her then husband, and he (Lord Morley) was therefore unable to make her his legal wife until several years later...