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wife and one
But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.
He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.
The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.
`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.
In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.
No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.
Toasting in champagne one night at the embassy, he hoisted his glass to a senator's wife and gaily cried: `` Up your bottom ''!!
I will be the one to confront my daughter, not the wife of him who leads her to sin ''!!
`` Well '', remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife, `` the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread ''.
* Alexander, Judean Prince, one of the sons of Herod the Great from his wife Mariamne
Instead, that night ( July 17 / 18 ), Alexios III hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Eirene, and such treasures ( 1, 000 pounds of gold ) as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Debeltos in Thrace, leaving his wife and his other daughters behind.
As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.
Excluding those princesses who have married into overseas Roman Catholic royal families, only one member of the Royal Family ( that is, with the style of Royal Highness ) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
# A wife of Hetzron, one of the grandchildren of Judah.
A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.
The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.
His work at the completion of Pitti Palace, commissioned by Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, is one of his most celebrated achievements ( 1558 – 1570 ), respecting the original style of Filippo Brunelleschi.
His wife prompts him to " curse God, and die " but Job answers, " You speak as one of the foolish speaks.
" The relationship between husband and wife was one of unequal power, in which the husband initiated both marriage and divorce ".

wife and captains
The senior Charbonneau had been hired by the expedition as an interpreter and, learning that his pregnant wife was Shoshone, the captains Lewis and Clark agreed to bring her along.
He was forced to bear witness to the execution of his wife, his eldest son Hipólito, his uncle Francisco, his brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas, and some of his captains before his own death.

wife and Lady
* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )
Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.
In around 1390, the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Abensberg was founded by Count John II and his wife, Agnes.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.
On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.
The current First Lady is Michelle Obama, wife of President Barack Obama.
Dolley Madison was the first President's wife to be referred to as " First Lady " at her funeral in 1849.
Several women who were not presidents ' wives have served as First Lady, as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the First Lady herself.
* 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman ( d. 1982 )
On Æthelred's death his wife ( Edward's sister ) Æthelflæd ruled as " Lady of the Mercians " and continued expansion.
* 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1907 )
* 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
He receives the insignia of his honor and may place the appropriate letters after his name or title but he may not be called Sir and his wife may not be called Lady.
In an alternate universe, Dave Lister is hugely successful, including being married to a gorgeous, titled wife, Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones, played by Stark.
Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.
* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife and later Queen of Scotland
** Lady Macduff – Macduff's wife
Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about the witches ' prophecies.
Charles Kean and his wife as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, in costumes aiming to be historically accurate ( 1858 )
1929's La Belle Marinière Beautiful Lady of the Canals a / k / a The Beautiful Bargewoman still has some of the excessively-poetic dialogue, but is overall a realistic play about a love triangle involving a bargeman, his wife and his best friend and companion.
* 1919 – Eva Perón, Argentine actress and First Lady, wife of Juan Perón ( d. 1952 )
* 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States ( b. 1847 )
* 1802 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States ( b. 1731 )

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