Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left the sea at the insistence of his wife Edith, but lost no time embarking, at a reported $1,000 a week, on a brief vaudeville tour during which he stolidly told his audiences: "You people have made a hero out of me. . . ." After that Hero Rogers opened a small Manhattan radio service shop. Two years ago he was glad to be appointed a patrolman in the radio bureau of the Bayonne, N. J. police department at $2,200 a year...
...home July 1, 1874 and has not appeared since. Last September memories of the original Charlie Ross were ironically revived when an elderly, well-to-do Chicago greeting card manufacturer was kidnapped on his way home from a dinner party, held for a $50,000 ransom which his wife promptly paid. The greeting card manufacturer's name was Charles Ross...
...news that a wave of suicides had swept over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike, he momentarily expected "liquidation" after the Nazis came into power...
...puny, but quiet and attentive," learned Beasley accuracy and strategy, developed several trick strokes-notably "the shovel"-but never perfected a strong forehand or learned to force his opponent. Two months ago, Mercer Beasley, on his way to become coach of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club, learned that the wife he had married a year before this puny boy's birth was about to divorce him and marry the boy. Said he: "If I've lost a love set-well, chin...
...Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing won a wife. After college he settled down to a steady routine of handkerchiefs, squash and bridge, has been monotonously successful in all three...