Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each day his wife and two children saw Melvin Attig grow more worried. One day last fortnight Principal Attig heard a disturbance in the basement of his school, went to investigate. As he entered the room, boys hooted, drenched him with water...
...bitter family feelings were deeply involved in the matter. Jack Martin and his socially minded wife have long been on chilly terms with the other Curtis heirs-Daughter Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Grandsons William Curtis and Gary Bok. Among the trustees who run the Curtis estate, the Boks can always get a majority. The trustees can fire Publisher Martin when Ledger earnings drop below a certain level. That exactly this has happened was reliably reported after a stormy stockholders' meeting three weeks ago. Pink-cheeked Gary Bok, who was delegated as family "spokesman," declined to discuss the Ledger...
...sudden the treasurer and inside 'shotters' gang got cold feet and started a secret investigation with no other objective than to cover their steps and run to cover, making me and underlings the goat and bring shame and humiliation on my poor loving wife. . . . There are no millions lost or hidden, much less narcotics or alcohol involved...
...watch spotted a flaring distress signal. As quickly as she could make it, the Schodack was at the side of the 8,181-ton Norwegian freighter Smaragd, foundering in the tumbled, ocean with a sodden cargo of coke, a crew of 18 and the captain's wife and daughter aboard. First boat the Schodack put overside was lost...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody...