"b/w"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> The 1960s gossip columnist Earl Wilson used to refer in print to his wife as
> "the b.w."--I never knew why.

I haven't followed this whole thread, so maybe I'm not adding anything,
but Wilson's b.w. stood for "beautiful wife."


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