Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Odessa, Mo., one Farmer Shupee, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were attacked in their auto by a swarm of bees. Mrs. Shupee at the wheel, sorely stung, sideswiped the car ahead, drove into a ditch, killed Farmer Shupee...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, in Paris with his wife, announced: "I have no longer the slightest desire to appear in print...
John Gilbert, cinemactor, honeymooning in Paris with his actress-wife, Ina Claire, said: "If I cannot get privacy in France, I will have to grow a beard and wear plus fours" [baggy knickerbockers...
Aged 54 (this summer), he forfeited his apartment lease, owing $2,083.35. He was fined $8,000 for plagiarizing part of his book Intestinal Gardening. He sued his wife for divorce at Reno, charging cruelty, and won. Five days later he married a Mrs. Vasilieff Safrom at an out of the way Mexican town. He lost his job as national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He disappeared...