Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith and his faithful wife, Thelma, were bundled into a big black police car for an exciting ride to Baton Rouge. Another car in front and one behind were filled with deputies. Two motorcycle policemen led the way, a squadron of press cars followed. The motorcade raced through traffic at 60 m.p.h. with all sirens wide open...
When the cars got to Baton Rouge, the whole town turned out to do a little good-natured jeering. Dr. Smith and his wife were whisked to jail (she for abetting his flight), fingerprinted. A delegation of L. S. U. professors was on hand with money to bail out Mrs. Smith, but Dr. Smith refused to be sprung. If he got out of jail in Baton Rouge he would be clapped into jail in New Orleans, where he was wanted for forgery, and Baton Rouge offered him several inducements to stay. He was given a cell with a private bathtub...
...their "palace on wheels" was known from coast to coast. They had covered 300,000 miles, never had an accident. Three weeks ago, still heading for the horizon, still happy as newlyweds, the Dankowskes nosed the 1 6-year-old Nomad out of Chicago toward California. Fondly beaming on Wife Mary, Fred Dankowske announced that they would keep on to the end of the trail. Said he: "This is the finest kind of life. It costs only $160 a month and you see the dreams you carry in your heart...
...famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack...
...Brink (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) exercises his literally fatal charm on old Gramps' son and wife, but the old man (Lionel Barrymore) proves a tougher customer. Gramps puts Mr. Brink up a tree until he can figure out a way to keep his chubby-legged little grandson, Pud, out of the clutches of grasping Aunt Demetria. Pud is safe from Aunt Demetria when Mr. Brink climbs down...