Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building in the Rue du Louvre, adequately covered by insurance, and it was considered all right to light fires in the wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures on the staff were Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French wouldn't like and correcting the more objectionable misspellings of the native composing room crew); Sportswriter "Sparrow" Robertson (who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when...
...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...
Born in Copenhagen 54 years ago, Viggo Bird came to the U. S. at 18, graduated from M. I. T., and married on a $2,000-a-year income from Stone & Webster. Slowly his salary rose to $40,000, but debts rose faster. First his wife had a $1,500 operation. Then his son got tuberculosis and Viggo Bird borrowed $9,000 to finance a cure in Switzerland. Just before 1929 his brother lost $30,000 belonging to their mother. Viggo Bird assumed the debt...
Since then, said Lawyer Cohen, Viggo Bird has made $304,000, paid $190,000 of it to the unnamed lender. This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
...Perth Amboy, N. J., John Czerwiec, 67, took a last look into the coffin where his dead wife lay, collapsed and died...