Word: husbanding
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...feminine ingenuity she had adopted another method outside the sphere of Nature to attract the masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
Mine. Gerster, assisted by her husband, will manage an opera-house next year in Vienna...
...between the pulls, for he has to hold almost the entire pull if the enemy make a sudden effort which is not quickly responded to by his team. Every one finds a tug-of-war the most trying exercise when first practised, because he does not know how to husband his strength, by resting between the heaves when the whole strain is borne by the anchor. Another cause of over-exertion is in not understanding the proper use of the legs, which really should bear the principal strain. In this respect, the tug-of-war is much like the lifting...
...Abbey says that Mme. Nilsson will surely come to this country next year, and that she does not intend to leave the stage because of the death of her husband...
Rose Eytinge has sued for divorce form her husband, a nephew of Gen. Butler...